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- Contested Pasts: A Determinist History of Alexander the Great in
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- 2022-04-18
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- 244
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- 9780472133031
- Subject Area
- Literary Criticism, History
- Publication Name
- Contested Pasts : a Determinist History of Alexander the Great in the Roman Empire
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- University of Michigan Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Subject
- Europe / Greece (See Also Ancient / Greece), Ancient / Rome, Ancient / Greece, Ancient & Classical
- Publication Year
- 2022
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- Textbook
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- Hardcover
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- English
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Taking as a key turning point the self-fashioning of the first Roman emperor Augustus, author Jennifer Finn revisits the idea of "universal history" in Polybius, Justin, and Diodorus, combined with the Stoic philosophy of determinism present in authors like Plutarch and Arrian. Finn endeavors to determine the ways in which Roman authors manipulated narratives about Alexander's campaigns--and even other significant events in Mediterranean history--to artificially construct a past to which the Romans could attach themselves as a natural teleological culmination. In doing so, Contested Pasts uses five case studies to reexamine aspects of Alexander's campaigns that have received much attention in modern scholarship, providing new interpretations of issues such as: his connections to the Trojan and Persian wars; the Great Weddings at Susa; the battle(s) of Thermopylae in 480 BCE and 191 BCE and Alexander's conflict at the Persian Gates; the context of his "Last Plans";" the role of his memory in imagining the Roman Civil Wars; and his fictitious visit to the city of Jerusalem. While Finn demonstrates throughout the book that the influence for many of these narratives likely originated in the reign of Alexander or his Successors, nevertheless these retroactive authorial manipulations force us to confront the fact that we may have an even more opaque understanding of Alexander than has previously been acknowledged. Through the application of a mnemohistorical approach, the book seeks to provide a new understanding of the ways in which the Romans--and people in the purview of the Romans--conceptualized their own world with reference to Alexander the Great.
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University of Michigan Press
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0472133039
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9780472133031
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10050078694
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244 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Contested Pasts : a Determinist History of Alexander the Great in the Roman Empire
Publication Year
2022
Subject
Europe / Greece (See Also Ancient / Greece), Ancient / Rome, Ancient / Greece, Ancient & Classical
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, History
Format
Hardcover
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0.9 in
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
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2022-930106
Dewey Edition
23
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Scholarly & Professional
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Yes
Dewey Decimal
938.07092
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Df234.2
Table of Content
Table of Contents List of Images Acknowledgments Chapter 1 Contested Pasts: Alexander the Great and Determinist History Great Man History and Determinism Alexander, the Romans, and Determinist History Alexander and Augustus Roman Historiography and Alexander the Great Chapter Contents Chapter 2 Trojan War Reprisals Alexander arrives at Susa: a Prelude Susa and the Greek World Alexander and Troy In the Ages of Heroes: Trojan War 2.0 Thrice Reprised: The Romans and the Trojan War Chapter 3 Writing Rivalry: The Persian Wars and the Battle of Thermopylae Prelude The Romans at Thermopylae Thermopylae and the Succession of Empires Re-writing Thermopylae Subverting Spartan History Chapter 4 Imagining Imperial Power Figures The Context of the "Last Plans" The Campaigns Against the Carthaginians and the West The Road to the Pillars of Hercules The Synoecism of Peoples from Europe and Asia The Construction of Temples The Tomb of Philip Conclusion Chapter 5 Alexander in Civil War(s) Introduction Antony and Octavian Pompey's Imitatio Alexandri and the Sertorian Wars History Rewritten: Two Alexanders Chapter 6 Con(text)s of Invention: Alexander the Great at Jerusalem Tyre Babylon Jerusalem Inventing History in the 1st century CE Alexandria Conclusion Contested Pasts: Conclusion Contested Pasts: Bibliography
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2022
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