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245 04 $aThe Alexander Romance :$bhistory and literature /$cedited by Richard Stoneman, Krzystof Nawotka & Agnieszka Wojciechowska.
264 1 $aGroningen :$bBarkhuis & Groningen University Library,$c2018.
264 4 $c©2018
300 $axv, 322 pages :$billustrations (some color) ;$c25 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aAncient narrative. Supplementum ;$v25
520 $a"The 'Alexander Romance' is a difficult text to define and to assess justly. From its earliest days it was an open text, which was adapted into a variety of cultures with meanings that themselves vary, and yet seem to carry a strong undercurrent of homogeneity: Alexander is the hero who cannot become a god, and who encapsulates the desires and strivings of the host cultures. The papers assembled in this volume, which were originally presented at a conference at the University of Wroclaw, Poland, in October 2015, all face the challenge of defining the 'Alexander Romance'. Some focus on quite specific topics while others address more overarching themes. They form a cohesive set of approaches to the delicate positioning of the text between history and literature. From its earliest elements in Hellenistic Egypt, to its latest reworkings in the Byzantine and Islamic Middle East, the Alexander Romance shows itself to be a work that steadily engages with such questions as kingship, the limits of human (and Greek) nature, and the purpose of history. The Romance began as a history, but only by becoming literature could it achieve such a deep penetration of east and west."--Provided by publisher.
505 00 $tIntroduction : on using literature for history VII /$rRichard Stoneman --$tAlexander 'the new Sesonchosis' : an early Hellenistic propagandist fiction and its possible background /$rIvan Ladynin --$tThe fantastic four : Alexander, Sesonchosis, Ninus and Semiramis /$rYvona Trnka-Amrhein --$tThe Alexander Romance and the rise of paradoxography /$rRichard Stoneman --$tThe king and the wizard : Apollonius of Tyana in the Iskandarnāma of Nizāmi Ganjavi (1141-1209) /$rHaila Manteghi --$tAlexander in the Indies /$rDaniel Selden --$tThe Alexander Romance and the Hellenistic political economy /$rGraham Oliver --$tAlexander's circuit of the Mediterranean in the Alexander Romance /$rBenjamin Garstad --$tHistory into literature in the account of the Campaign of Gaugamela in the Alexander Romance /$rKrzysztof Nawotka --$tIntertextuality through translation : the foundation of Alexandria and Virgil in Julius Valerius' Alexander Romance /$rHartmut Wulfram --$t"Joining the gods" : Alexander at the Euphrates; Arrian 7.27.3, Metz Epitome 101-102 and the Alexander Romance /$rElizabeth Baynham --$tRevisiting Alexander's gates against 'Gog and Magog' : observations on the testimonies before the Alexander Romance tradition /$rChristian Thrue Djurslev --$tThe universal rule of Alexander in Tamid 32: an overview /$rAleksandra Klȩczar --$tAlexander Romance and Byzantine world chronicles : history cross-fertilized by fiction and the reverse /$rCorinne Jouanno --$tAlexander at the Buyid Court /$rEmily Cottrell.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
600 00 $aAlexander,$cthe Great,$d356 B.C.-323 B.C.$xRomances$xHistory and criticism.
600 00 $aAlexander,$cthe Great,$d356 B.C.-323 B.C.$xIn literature.
600 07 $aAlexander,$cthe Great,$d356 B.C.-323 B.C.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01800513
650 7 $aLiterature.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00999953
650 7 $aRomances.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01099892
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411635
700 1 $aStoneman, Richard,$eeditor,$eauthor.
700 1 $aNawotka, Krzysztof,$eeditor,$eauthor.
700 1 $aWojciechowska, Agnieszka,$eeditor.
830 0 $aAncient narrative.$pSupplementum ;$v25.
852 00 $bglx$hPN687.A5$iA44 2018g