Good day everyone I’m Elena from Italy and thanks to be here on Alessandro III di Macedonia- website about Alexander the Great and Hellenism! I just found a new interesting book just published and I’ve already pre-ordered. It’s
Historiographical Alexander: Alexander the Great and the Historians in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
by Borja Antela-Bernárdez and Marc Mendoza (editors)
Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra / Coimbra University Press
In a famous statement, Ulrich Wilcken argues that each historian has his own Alexander. A critical examination of the traditions in Historiographic Alexander allows to reconsider both our ideas of alterity and success, and how great can be a human being, or to what extent what was great in the past still has to be accepted as such in our present days. To sum up, to revisit Alexander from the eyes of the historians in the Contemporary Age offers a genuine opportunity to rethink History as such, and to evaluate how can we imagine new ways to explain the past in order to build a rich appreciation of the present in order to imagine brand new futures. The aim of the following pages is to review Alexander’s portraits and concerns in the works and scopes of the more recent historical traditions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Table of Contents:
PROLOGUE 9
ALEXANDER AND MODERN HISTORIOGRAPHY. AN INTRODUCTORY SURVEY By B. Antela-Bernárdez 13
ALEXANDER THE GREAT: HISTORICAL OR HISTORIOGRAPHICAL FAILURE? by E. Almagor 21
BEFORE AND AFTER ALEXANDER: CONTINUITY AND RUPTURE IN THE HELLENISTICIC HISTORY by A. I. Molina Marin 57
ALEXANDER III ACCORDING TO NINETEENTH CENTURY-HELLENIC HISTORIOGRAPHY: PAPARRHEGOPOULOS AND THE EDITIONS OF THE HISTORY OF THE GREEK NATION by G. D. M. Taietti 73
ALEXANDER THE STRAIGHT. W. W. TARN AND ALEXANDER’S SEXUALITY by M. Mendoza 97
ALEXANDER, ASIA AND ALTHEIM by B. Antela-Bernárdez 129
MAKING ALEXANDER ‘GREAT (OR NOT SO GREAT) IN HAMMOND’S AND BOSWORTH’S SCHOLARLY BIOGRAPHIES by J. Peltonen 141
BIBLIOGRAPHY 161
Paperback
ISBN: 978-9892624617
188 pages
20,45 €
also available in digital format on Kindle or eBook version
In the past few days, I noticed on social media that this book would be released. As soon as I saw that it was already available for sale on Amazon a few minutes ago, I pre-ordered it without hesitation. The book is written by important scholars and researchers, and it is priced very affordably, making it a worthwhile purchase. The theme is also highly interesting and presents a new perspective that deserves further exploration.
What do you think? Are you interested in this book too? Let me know!
Thank you, and have a great day.
Alessandro III di Macedonia 