Description
Book SynopsisTaking as a key turning point the self-fashioning of the first Roman emperor Augustus, Jennifer Finn revisits the idea of ‘universal history’ in Polybius, Justin, and Diodorus, combined with the Stoic philosophy of determinism present in authors like Plutarch and Arrian.
Table of Contents
- List of Images
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Contested Pasts: Alexander the Great and Determinist History
- Great Man History and Determinism
- Alexander, the Romans, and Determinist History
- Alexander and Augustus
- Roman Historiography and Alexander the Great
- Chapter Contents
- Chapter 2 Trojan War Reprisals
- Alexander arrives at Susa: a Prelude
- Susa and the Greek World
- Alexander and Troy
- In the Ages of Heroes: Trojan War 2.0
- Thrice Reprised: The Romans and the Trojan War
- Chapter 3 Writing Rivalry: The Persian Wars and the Battle of Thermopylae
- Prelude
- The Romans at Thermopylae
- Thermopylae and the Succession of Empires
- Re-writing Thermopylae
- Subverting Spartan History
- Chapter 4 Imagining Imperial Power Figures
- The Context of the “Last Plans”
- The Campaigns Against the Carthaginians and the West
- The Road to the Pillars of Hercules
- The Synoecism of Peoples from Europe and Asia
- The Construction of Temples
- The Tomb of Philip
- Conclusion
- Chapter 5 Alexander in Civil War(s)
- Introduction
- Antony and Octavian
- Pompey’s Imitatio Alexandri and the Sertorian Wars
- History Rewritten: Two Alexanders
- Chapter 6 Con(text)s of Invention: Alexander the Great at Jerusalem
- Tyre
- Babylon
- Jerusalem
- Inventing History in the 1st century CE
- Alexandria
- Conclusion
- Contested Pasts: Conclusion
- Contested Pasts: Bibliography
