{"product_id":"contested-pasts-9780472133031","title":"Contested Pasts","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTaking 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eList of Images\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 1 Contested Pasts: Alexander the Great and Determinist History\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Great Man History and Determinism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Alexander, the Romans, and Determinist History\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Alexander and Augustus\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Roman Historiography and Alexander the Great\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter Contents\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 2 Trojan War Reprisals\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Alexander arrives at Susa: a Prelude\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Susa and the Greek World\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Alexander and Troy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e In the Ages of Heroes: Trojan War 2.0\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Thrice Reprised: The Romans and the Trojan War\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 3 Writing Rivalry: The Persian Wars and the Battle of Thermopylae\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Prelude\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Romans at Thermopylae\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Thermopylae and the Succession of Empires\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Re-writing Thermopylae\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Subverting Spartan History\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 4 Imagining Imperial Power Figures\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Context of the “Last Plans”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Campaigns Against the Carthaginians and the West\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Road to the Pillars of Hercules\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Synoecism of Peoples from Europe and Asia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Construction of Temples\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Tomb of Philip\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Conclusion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 5 Alexander in Civil War(s)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Introduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Antony and Octavian\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Pompey’s \u003ci\u003eImitatio Alexandri\u003c\/i\u003e and the Sertorian Wars\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e History Rewritten: Two Alexanders\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 6 Con(text)s of Invention: Alexander the Great at Jerusalem\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Tyre\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Babylon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Jerusalem\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Inventing History in the 1st century CE\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Alexandria\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Conclusion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContested Pasts: Conclusion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContested Pasts: Bibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"LUP - University of Michigan Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037190750551,"sku":"9780472133031","price":56.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780472133031.jpg?v=1750934723","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/contested-pasts-9780472133031","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}