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- Alexander the Great : Letters: a Selection
- ISBN
- 9781800348622
- Subject Area
- Foreign Language Study, Literary Criticism, History
- Publication Name
- Alexander the Great : Letters: a Selection
- Item Length
- 8.3 in
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Subject
- Europe / Greece (See Also Ancient / Greece), Ancient / Greece, Ancient & Classical, Ancient Languages (See Also Latin)
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Series
- Aris and Phillips Classical Texts
- Type
- Language Course
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- Hardcover
- Language
- English
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- 0.6 in
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- 5.8 in
- Item Weight
- 12.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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This book offers the first critical edition with an English translation and commentary on some of the letters attributed to Alexander and transmitted by mainly Plutarch and Arrian. The vast majority of the texts examined here are constituted by Alexander's 'private' letters, but the book also includes some letters regarded as official. Thirty-four letters are included, although there are many more letters allegedly written by Alexander, which are definitely forgeries. The doubts about the letters mostly come from the fact that the Romance of Alexander is considered a sort of epistolary novel, thus it has been argued that at some point a collection of Alexander's letters was put together, containing a nucleus of genuine letters, but also expanded with forgeries. This volume attempts to isolate the letters which are regarded as authentic by the majority of modern scholars, with each letter followed by an outline of previous scholarly discussion of its authenticity. The book brings to wider attention a much-neglected corpus by employing an innovative approach. The traditional study of epistolography tends to focus on literary rather than historical aspects of the genre, whereas this book, by exploring the culture behind the action of writing at Alexander's court and the diverse approaches in relation to the letters, suggests that different criteria and new ways of writing history, prompted by Eastern standards, were introduced at his court. Furthermore, the collection shows that the step Alexander made, when he assumed the title of Great King, had formal and cultural implications. Finally, the book discusses the provenance of the letters, especially who among the historians contemporary with Alexander knew and handed the letters down.
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Liverpool University Press
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1800348622
ISBN-13
9781800348622
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Publication Name
Alexander the Great : Letters: a Selection
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Europe / Greece (See Also Ancient / Greece), Ancient / Greece, Ancient & Classical, Ancient Languages (See Also Latin)
Publication Year
2023
Series
Aris and Phillips Classical Texts
Type
Language Course
Subject Area
Foreign Language Study, Literary Criticism, History
Number of Pages
272 Pages
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Item Length
8.3 in
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Width
5.8 in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
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Df234.A1
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"Giustina Monti's edition of Alexander's Letters is a really important contribution to scholarship. These letters, preserved largely by Plutarch and Arrian, cover a wide range of topics: angry ripostes to the Persian king Darius, reports on battles to Antipater back at home, more or less chatty letters to his friends, even one to his mother telling her what he was told at the oracle of Siwah. Some seem pretty clearly to be inauthentic - not forgeries, perhaps, but rather later literary exercises; some though give every impression of being genuine and containing good, hard information... If she is right, they become an immensely valuable resource for sifting some truth from the morass of Alexander legend." Christopher Pelling, Emeritus Professor, Oxford University, "Giustina Monti's edition of Alexander's Letters is a really important contribution to scholarship. These letters, preserved largely by Plutarch and Arrian, cover a wide range of topics: angry ripostes to the Persian king Darius, reports on battles to Antipater back at home, more or less chatty letters to his friends, even one to his mother telling her what he was told at the oracle of Siwah. Some seem pretty clearly to be inauthentic - not forgeries, perhaps, but rather later literary exercises; some though give every impression of being genuine and containing good, hard information... If she is right, they become an immensely valuable resource for sifting some truth from the morass of Alexander legend." Christopher Pelling FBA, Emeritus Regius Professor of Greek, University of Oxford"[The] careful evaluation of each letter in Monti?s selection makes her book a new work of reference on its subject. [...] she has not only breathed new life and insight into a knotty problem in Alexander Quellenforschung, but also has fashioned a desirable tool for anyone working in depth on Alexander-history." Tony Spawforth, Classics for All
Dewey Decimal
938.07092
Dewey Edition
23
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