Alexander the Great and Propaganda

John Walsh, Elizabeth Baynham, John Walsh, Elizabeth Baynham

• Editorial: Routledge
• Año: 2021
• ISBN:
  9781351627597
• Edición: 1
• Categoría: Geschichte
• Categoría: Altertum

Alexander the Great and Propaganda explores the use of propaganda - whether literature, coinage, or iconography – 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.

This volume brings together ten essays from leading international scholars in Alexander studies. There is currently no equivalent collection which has a specialist focus of themes or issues relating to the use of propaganda in the courts of Alexander or his Successors.

This book will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of Alexander studies, as well as those studying the use of propaganda across the ancient world, and to the more general reader with an interest in Alexander the Great and his reign.

Índice

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of figures
• List of contributors
• Acknowledgements
• List of abbreviations
• 1 “Selling Alexander”: the concept and use of “propaganda” in the age of Alexander
• 2 Alexander the Great: A life lived as legend
• 3 Ptolemaic propaganda in Alexander’s visit to Ammon
• 4 The “pursuit” of kings: imitatio Alexandri in Arrian’s Darius and Bessos “Chase scenes”
• 5 The bias of Hieronymus: a source critical analysis of Diodorus 18.8–18
• 6 At the court of Antigonus Gonatas, the heir of two dynasties
• 7 Alexander at Naqsh-e Rostam? Persia and the Macedonians
• 8 The man who would be king: Alexander between Gaugamela and Persepolis
• 9 Desertions and the rise and fall of rulers in Hellenistic Macedonia
• 10 Coinage as propaganda: Alexander and his Successors
• Index