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245 00 $aLegends of Alexander the Great /$c[edited by] Richard Stoneman.
250 $aNew pbk. ed.
260 $aLondon :$bI.B. Tauris,$c2012.
300 $axlii, 134 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c22 cm
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500 $aOriginally published. : 1994.
546 $aTranslation of Greek and Latin texts.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 8 $a"'How can a man become a god'? So enquired Alexander the Great of the Brahman sages of India. And how did they reply? 'By doing what it is impossible for a man to do'. And that answer set a keynote for the Conqueror's entire career, which was characterized throughout by Alexander's attempts to achieve the unachievable: to scale the fresh heights and make the incredible real and tangible on earth. He fought an Indian monster larger than an elephant, confronted ants the size of foxes and contested bats with human teeth. He became a Jewish convert, sailed up the Ganges and visited the Early Paradise. Already a legend in his own lifetime, the glittering figure of Alexander preoccupied European, Jewish and Arabic folklore until the fifteenth century. Richard Stoneman, who is one of his leading modern interpreters, here presents a range of Greek and Latin texts which recount the Conqueror's adventures in the east. Essential reading for students of late antique and medieval literature, these stories are still unsurpassed for sheer entertainment, opening a window onto a rumbustious world of legend as rich and compelling as that of the 'Arabian Nights'. This revised edition offers a substantial new introduction by the editor"--Publisher's description, back cover.
505 0 $aMachine generated contents note: 1.Alexander's Letter to Aristotle about India -- 2.On the Wonders of the East [Letter of Pharasmanes to Hadrian] -- 3.Excerpt from `The Chronicle of George the Monk' -- 4.Palladius, `On the Life of the Brahmans' -- 5.The Correspondence of Alexander and Dindimus -- 6.Alexander the Great's Journey to Paradise -- Appendix I Fragmentary Texts from Antiquity -- i.Berlin Papyrus 13044: Alexander Interrogates the Gymnosophists -- ii.Geneva Papyrus 271: A Cynic Diatribe of Dandamis to Alexander -- Appendix II Early English Versions of the Legends -- i.From the Thornton `Life of Alexander' -- ii.From `Kyng Alisaundre' -- iii.From `The Book of Sir John Mandeville' -- iv.From the Alliterative `Alexander B' -- v.From John Gower, Confessio Amantis -- vi.From the Upright Lives of the Heathens (1683) -- vii.From Gilbert Hay, `The Buik of Alexander'.
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