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The Alexander Romance: History and Literature (Hardcover)
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The Alexander Romance: History and Literature (Hardcover)
Series: Ancient Narrative Supplements, 25
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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.
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