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East and West in the World Empire of Alexander - Essays in Honour of Brian Bosworth (Hardcover)
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East and West in the World Empire of Alexander - Essays in Honour of Brian Bosworth (Hardcover)
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The essays in this volume - written by twenty international
scholars - are dedicated to Professor Brian Bosworth who has, in
over forty-five years, produced arguably the most influential
corpus of historical and historiographical research by one scholar.
Professor Bosworth's name is often synonymous with scholarship on
Alexander the Great, but his expertise also spreads far wider, as
the scope of these essays demonstrates. The collection's coverage
ranges from Egyptian and Homeric parallels, through Roman
historiography, to Byzantine coinage. However, the life of
Alexander provides the volume's central theme, and among the topics
explored are the conqueror's resonance with mythological figures
such as Achilles and Heracles, his divine pretensions and military
display, and his motives for arresting his expedition at the River
Hyphasis in India. Some of Alexander's political acts are also
scrutinized, as are the identities of those supposedly present in
the last symposium where, according to some sources, the fatal
poison was administered to the king. Part of the collection focuses
on Alexander's legacy, with seven essays examining the Successors,
especially Craterus, and Ptolemy, and Alexander's ill-fated
surviving dynasty, including Olympias, Eurydice, and Philip III
Arrhidaeus.
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