Good day everyone I’m Elena and thank you to be here on Alessandro III di Macedonia- blog about Alexander the Great and Hellenism! Today I’ve an announcement of a new publication!
The World of Alexander in Perspective. Contextualizing Arrian
Editors: Robert Rollinger and Julian Degen
Harrassowitz Verlag
Publishing date: 19.10.2022
This volume is a collection of papers that have been given at an international conference in December 2019 in Bregenz, Austria. They focus on Arrian of Nicomedia’s Anabasis Alexandrou which is our main source for the life and reign of Alexander the Great. So far, scholarship has paid only little attention to the Anabasis as literary cosmos of its own right. The various contributions critically evaluate the still extant general opinion, that Arrian deserves a distinguished status as the main source on the Macedonian conqueror since he allegedly closely followed his sources. But the first accounts of the participants in Alexander’s famous expedition have only survived as fragments and thus their literary production is more or less shrouded in mystery. Hence, the tension between Arrian’s literary creativity, propinquity to his sources, his relationship to his role-model Xenophon merits serious examination when assessing the value of his work as a historical source.
The volume is the first attempt to contextualize the work of Arrian against various backdrops. This includes the reign of Alexander, the Classical and contemporary literary trends, the Second Sophistic as intellectual framework, the until yet neglected idea of “empire” as well as echoes and stimuli from the Achaemenid and Hellenistic period. The various contributions create a more complex image of Arrian as an author, his literary production and his idea of the Macedonian conqueror that helps us to gain a better understanding of this complex text and Alexander the Great as its protagonist.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Preface ………………………………………………………….VII
Julian Degen (Trier) & Robert Rollinger (Innsbruck)
Introducing Arrian and the World of Alexander ………………………… 1
Arrian as Source for Alexander
Krzysztof Nawotka (Wrocław)
Arrian on the Last Days and the Death of Alexander ……………………..13
Julian Degen (Trier)
Source and Criticism: Traces of Alexander’s ‘Official Language’ in the Anabasis …25
Timothy Howe (St. Olaf College)
Alexander at Troy: Arrian, Kallisthenes and the ‘Goals’ of Historiography …….73
Intellectual Background I: Arrian, Second Sophistic and Rome
Richard Stoneman (Exeter)
Arrian’s Indica in its Second-Century Context ………………………….. 95
Alexander Free (Munich)
Between Mimesis and Innovation: Some Thoughts on Arrian’s Place in the Literary Currents of his Time ……….. 111
Pascal Mathéus (Zurich)
From Epictetus to Arrian and Beyond: How Stoicism Influenced the Anabasis ………………………………… 131
Intellectual Background II: Arrian, Second Sophistic and Greek Historiography
Sabine Müller (Marburg)
How to Be a Leader? Arrian and the Legacy of Xenophon …………………. 147
Pierre-Olivier Leroy (Reims)
Historiography and Tactics: Some Thoughts About the Dating of Arrian’s Anabasis …………………… 161
Guendalina Daniela Maria Taietti (Liverpool)
Arrian’s Historiae: The Anabasis Beyond Military History …………………. 189
Lennart Gilhaus (Bonn)
How Much Violence Is an Overdose? Arrian’s Praise and Criticism of Violence in the Anabasis ………………….. 217
Arrian’s Propinquity to his Sources
Ian Worthington (Macquarie University Sydney)
Why Arrian Favoured Ptolemy in the Preface of his Anabasis: A Simple Solution ………………………………………………… 231
Frances Pownall (Alberta)
Arrian’s Propinquity to Ptolemy and Aristobulus: A Reassessment ………….. 243
Joseph Roisman (Colby College)
Arrian and his Sources: Omissions, Manipulations and Explanations ………… 265
Arrian and Empire
M. Rahim Shayegan (UCLA)
Contesting the Empire: Dareios III and Alexander ………………………. 285
Hilmar Klinkott (Kiel)
‘Great King’ or ‘Lord of Asia’? Arrian’s Understanding of Alexander’s Rule in the East ………………………………………… 315
Marek Jan Olbrycht (Rzeszów)
The Royal Insignia of Alexander the Great: Arrian’s Evidence and Omissions …………………………………….. 345
Touraj Daryaee (UCI)
Alexander at Pasargadae and the Frawašī of Cyrus ……………………….. 357
Kai Ruffing (Kassel)
Arrian, the Persians, their Wealth, and Sparta …………………………… 369
Rolf Strootman (Utrecht)
Cosmopolitan Empire in Arrian’s Anabasis: Achaemenid, Hellenistic or Roman? …………………………………. 381
Index ………………………………………………………….. 401
Hardback
ISBN: 978-3447119085
pages: 452
series: Classica et Orientalia
volume: 30
language: English
dimensions: 17.00 × 24.00 cm
prices: 98,00 Eur[D] / 100,80 Eur[A]
This is an important book to read and I’ll buy it as soon as possible to me because it’s price is very high and hoping to find it discounted sooner or later. You can save a Google Reminder to your calendar from HERE.
Thank you and have a good day,
Alessandro III di Macedonia 