Alexander the Great : a new history

Heckel, Waldemar, 1949- (Added Author). Tritle, Lawrence A., 1946- (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9781405130820 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 1405130822 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xix, 366 p., [2] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.
Publisher: Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-348) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The Macedonian background / Michael Zahrnt -- Alexander's conquest of Asia / Waldemar Heckel -- The Diadochi, or successors to Alexander / Patrick Wheatley -- A king and his army / Waldemar Heckel -- The court of Alexander the Great as social system / Gregor Weber -- Alexander and the Greeks : the Corinthian League / Elisabetta Poddighe -- Alexander and the Greeks : artists and soldiers, friends and enemies / Lawrence A. Tritle -- The empire of Darius III in perspective / Pierre Briant -- Alexander and the Persian empire, between "decline" and "renovation" : history and historiography / Pierre Briant -- Alexander and his "terrible mother" / Elizabeth D. Carney -- Alexander's sex life / Daniel Ogden -- Heroes, cults, and divinity / Boris Dreyer -- Alexander's image in the age of the successors / Alexander Meeus -- Roman Alexanders : epistemology and identity / Diana Spencer -- The construction of a new ideal : the official portraiture of Alexander the Great / Catie Mihalopoulos -- Power, passion, and patrons : Alexander, Charles Le Brun, and Oliver Stone / E. J. Baynham.