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 Wrocław, 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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Information

Publisher

Barkhuis

Year

2018

ISBN

9789492444738

Topic

Literature

Subtopic

Historical Fiction

Index

Literature

ANS25_00frontmatter
ANS25_01Introduction_corr
ANS25_02_part1
ANS25_02Ladynin_corr
ANS25_03Trnka_corr
ANS25_04Stoneman_corr
ANS25_05Manteghi_corr
ANS25_06Selden_corr
ANS25_07_part2
ANS25_07Oliver_corr
ANS25_08Garstad_corr
ANS25_09Nawotka_corr
ANS25_10Wulfram_corr
ANS25_11Baynham_corr
ANS25_12_part3
ANS25_12Djurslev_corr
ANS25_13Kleczar_corr
ANS25_14Jouanno_corr
ANS25_15Cottrell_corr
ANS25_16abstracts
ANS25_17contributors
ANS25_18indices
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