Alexander's Revenge : Hellenistic Culture through the Centuries

by: Asgeirsson, J.M. van Deusen, N.

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Due to his influence on subsequent cultural development, Alexander the Great may be said to have revenged his untimely death in a fashion without parallel in world history. In this volume, Alexander's Revenge: Hellenistic Culture through the Centuries , edited by Jon Ma. Asgeirsson, University of Iceland, and Nancy van Deusen, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California, twelve prominent scholars in the field of biblical studies, medieval studies, and history write on various aspects of Western civilization following the death of Alexander the Great to the Early Modern Age. Ranging in field from education, art, music, literature, biblical studies, philosophy ... to demography, this collection of essays offers an interdisciplinary focus in the field of cross-cultural studies demonstrating how the world of Alexander is still shaping the present world situation.

The chreia in primary and secondary education / Ronald F. Hock
The chria as principle and source for literary composition / Jon Ma. Asgeirsson
Rhetoric and the composition of the letters of Paul / James D. Hester
From prince to demi-god : the formation and evolution of Alexander's portrait / Ernst F. Tonsing
Serpents and heretics : the impact of Hellenistic poetry on a fourth-century church father / Richard A. Zionts
Aristotle's advice to Alexander and the issue of rulership (the Physics exemplified in the thirteenth century) / Nancy van Deusen
The enduring Hellenistic gift : the innvisible [sic] and indivisible atom / James Otté
A medieval cosmopolis : Constantinople and its foreign inhabitants / Claudia Rapp
Venice, Byzantium and the Balkan peoples in the late Middle Ages / Bariša Krekić
Tales of ships and seas : the Mediterranean in the Medieval imagination / Christopher Kleinhenz
Islam in Boccaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's Canterbury tales / Brenda Deen Schildgen
International elements in the Codex calixtinus : Mappa mundi and the Alleluia group / Vincent Corrigan

Subjects:
02.01 history of science and culture
Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C
Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C. Influence
Cultural influences
Hellenism
Hellenism Historiography
Hellenism Influence
Hellénisme Influence
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Alexander's Revenge : Hellenistic Culture through the Centuries

by: Asgeirsson, J.M. van Deusen, N.

• ISBN-13: 9789979545132 / 978-9979-54-513-2
• ISBN-03: 9979545135 / 9979-54-513-5
• The University of Iceland press, Reykjavik, 2002

Price: 23,00 EURO

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