Alexander the Great in fact and fiction / edited by A.B. Bosworth and E.J. Baynham

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 370 pages ; 21cm : illustrations. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-352) and index.Contents: A tale of two empires: Hernán Cortés and Alexander the Great / Brian Bosworth -- Conspiracies / E. Badian -- Alexander the Great and Panhellenism / Michael Flower -- Alexander the Great and the kingdom of Asia / Ernst Fredricksmeyer -- Hephaestion's pyre and the royal hunt of Alexander / Olga Palagia -- Ptolemy and the will of Alexander / Brian Bosworth -- A baleful birth in Babylon: the significance of the prodigy in the Liber de morte: an investigation of genre / Elizabeth Baynham -- Artifice and Alexander history / Elizabeth Carney -- Polybius and Alexander historiography / Richard Billows -- Originality and its limits in the Alexander sources of the early empire / John Atkinson. Subjects: Alexander the Great 356 B.C.-323 B.C. Influence ; Congresses. Alexander the Great 356 B.C.-323 B.C. In literature ; Congresses.Alexandre le Grand 356-323 av. J.-C ; Influence ; Congrès. Alexander the Great 356 B.C.-323 B.C.Alexander (Makedonien, König, III.). Alexander the Great 356 B.C.-323 B.C.Alexander the Great 356-323 B.C. Influence ; Congresses. Alexander III, King of Macedonia In literature. Alexander III, King of Macedonia ; Congresses. Alexander III, King of Macedonia In literature ; Congresses.359-323 B.C Myth in literature ; Congresses.Myth in literature Congresses. Mythe dans la littérature Congrès.Alexandre, le Grand, 356-323 av. J.-C, dans la littérature Congrès.Mythe dans la littérature ; Congrès. Myth in literature ; Congresses. Myth in literature ; Congresses.Myth in literature. Myth in literature.