Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend by Stoneman, Richard
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- Condition
- EAN
- 9780300270068
- UPC
- 9780300270068
- ISBN
- 9780300270068
- MPN
- N/A
- Book Title
- Alexander the Great : Alife in Legend
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Item Length
- 0.8 in
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.1 in
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography
- Topic
- European / General, Historical
- Item Weight
- 11.2 Oz
- Item Width
- 0.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN-10
0300270062
ISBN-13
9780300270068
eBay Product ID (ePID)
19057244704
Product Key Features
Book Title
Alexander the Great : Alife in Legend
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Topic
European / General, Historical
Publication Year
2023
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
11.2 Oz
Item Length
0.8 in
Item Width
0.5 in
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Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title of 2008. Short-listed for the 2009 Runciman Award, administered by the Anglo-Hellenic League and sponsored by the National Bank of Greece. "This is a magisterial book, of quite extraordinary breadth and depth. Stoneman is supremely well qualified to write the definitive work on the Nachleben of Alexander in tradition, legend, and myth."--John Cherry, Brown University "Alexander the Great enjoyed one of the most spectacularly glorious of human lives. His afterlife, as Richard Stoneman's masterly new survey amply documents, was every bit as spectacular and glory-bringing. Look on his fame, ye mighty, and despair! Or rather, read this literally marvelous book by one of the world's leading authorities on the multifarious Alexander-legend. Hero or villain: there is an Alexander here for every conceivable taste."--Paul Cartledge, Cambridge University "The legend of Alexander the Great extends from Iceland to China, and is reincarnated in Jewish and Christian versions, in Islam and the religions of India. Richard Stoneman traces the many re-tellings, both in literature and in art, situating each in its historical context. His book is a pleasure to read: full of remarkable episodes and insights, immensely learned, clearly and elegantly narrated. If you want to know how the story of Alexander evolved over two millennia and penetrated most of the world's cultures, this is the book to read."--David Konstan, Brown University "In this impressive volume the many varicoloured threads of the legend of Sultan Iskander are skilfully woven into a fascinating fabric. Stoneman has successfully faced an awesome challenge in marshalling a huge body of diverse and complex material into an ordered whole, subtly highlighting the factors which have given Alexander's legend such an enduring and widespread appeal and the ways in which it has been adapted to very different cultures."--Stephanie West, Oxford University "Richard Stoneman retells in a fascinating way the life of Alexander the Great not from the historical records but from the fictional texts of the Alexander Romance and other legendary sources. The result is an extremely rich and well-documented survey of the various traditions which, at the same time, is also a most enjoyable reading. This highly recommendable book is a masterpiece and will be the new point of reference for all future studies in this field."--Heinz Hofmann, University of Tuebingen
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
809/.93351
Synopsis
Alexander the Great conquered the ancient world. When he died in 323 BCE, his empire began to crumble. But his story lived on, endlessly mythologised across times and cultures. In this fascinating history, Richard Stoneman collects together the legends of Alexander's exploits - showing how his life has resonated for Christians, Muslims and Jews, in Asia and Europe, for over two thousand years., In his brief life, Alexander the Great gained fame as the military genius who conquered the known world. After death, his legend only increased. Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.) precipitated immense historical change in the Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. But the resonance his legend achieved over the next two millennia stretched even farther--across foreign cultures, religious traditions, and distant nations. This engaging and handsomely illustrated book for the first time gathers together hundreds of the colorful Alexander legends that have been told and retold around the globe. Richard Stoneman, a foremost expert on the Alexander myths, introduces us first to the historical Alexander and then to the Alexander of legend, an unparalleled mythic icon who came to represent the heroic ideal in cultures from Egypt to Iceland, from Britain to Malaya. Alexander came to embody the concerns of Hellenistic man; he fueled Roman ideas on tyranny and kingship; he was a talisman for fourth-century pagans and a hero of chivalry in the early Middle Ages. He appears in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic writings, frequently as a prophet of God. Whether battling winged foxes or meeting with the Amazons, descending to the underworld or inventing the world's first diving bell, Alexander inspired as a hero, even a god. Stoneman traces Alexander's influence in ancient literature and folklore and in later literatures of east and west. His book provides the definitive account of the legends of Alexander the Great--a powerful leader in life and an even more powerful figure in the history of literature and ideas.
LC Classification Number
PN687.A5S76 2022
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