Alexander the Great and Propaganda explores the use of propaganda - whether literature, coinage, or iconography â in the court of Alexander the Great, as well as those of his Successors, demonstrating that it was as integral to Hellenistic courts as it was to Imperial Rome.
Alexander the Great and Propaganda explores the use of propaganda - whether literature, coinage, or iconography â in the court of Alexander the Great, as well as those of his Successors, demonstrating that it was as integral to Hellenistic courts as it was to Imperial Rome.
John Walsh is Assistant Professor in the School of Languages and Literatures (Classical Studies), University of Guelph, Canada. Elizabeth Baynham is Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Social Science at the University of Newcastle, Australia.
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List of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgements Abbreviations 1. "Selling Alexander": the Concept and Use of 'Propaganda' in the Age of Alexander, Elizabeth Baynham 2. Alexander the Great: A Life Lived as Legend, Edward M. Anson 3. Ptolemaic Propaganda in Alexander's Visit to Ammon, Frances Pownall 4. The 'Pursuit' of Kings: Imitatio Alexandri in Arrian's Darius and Bessos 'Chase Scenes', Timothy Howe 5. The Bias of Hieronymus: A Source Critical Analysis of Diodorus 18.8-18, John Walsh 6. At the Court of Antigonus Gonatas, the Heir of two Dynasties, Franca Landucci 7. Alexander at Naq-i Rustam? Persia and the Macedonians, Sabine Müller 8. The Man Who Would be King: Alexander Between Gaugamela and Persepolis, Hugh Bowden 9. Desertions and the Rise and Fall of Rulers in Hellenistic Macedonia, Joseph Roisman 10. Coinage as Propaganda: Alexander and His Successors, Pat Wheatley & Charlotte Dunn Index
List of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgements Abbreviations 1. "Selling Alexander": the Concept and Use of 'Propaganda' in the Age of Alexander, Elizabeth Baynham 2. Alexander the Great: A Life Lived as Legend, Edward M. Anson 3. Ptolemaic Propaganda in Alexander's Visit to Ammon, Frances Pownall 4. The 'Pursuit' of Kings: Imitatio Alexandri in Arrian's Darius and Bessos 'Chase Scenes', Timothy Howe 5. The Bias of Hieronymus: A Source Critical Analysis of Diodorus 18.8-18, John Walsh 6. At the Court of Antigonus Gonatas, the Heir of two Dynasties, Franca Landucci 7. Alexander at Naq-i Rustam? Persia and the Macedonians, Sabine Müller 8. The Man Who Would be King: Alexander Between Gaugamela and Persepolis, Hugh Bowden 9. Desertions and the Rise and Fall of Rulers in Hellenistic Macedonia, Joseph Roisman 10. Coinage as Propaganda: Alexander and His Successors, Pat Wheatley & Charlotte Dunn Index
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