Alexander the Great and the East
History, Art, Tradition
Even if Alexander's rule in Asia has to be approached primarily through the study of Greek and Latin authors, many papers in this volume try to look beyond Arrian, Plutarch, Curtius, and Diodorus to Greek inscriptions, papyri, Egyptian, Babylonian, medieval Syriac and Arabic evidence. One focus is on Egypt, from the XXX dynasty to the Ptolemaic age. A lasting achievement of the early Macedonian age in Egypt is the lighthouse of Pharos, probably devised under Alexander to serve both as a watchtower of Alexandria and the focal point of the fire telegraph. Another focus of the volume is on Babylonia, with caveats against the over-enthusiastic u…
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Weitere Autoren: Wojciechowska, Agnieszka (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-3-447-19571-3
- EAN: 9783447195713
- Produktnummer: 22290488
- Verlag: Harrassowitz Verlag
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 447 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 5'636 KB
- Abbildungen: 3 Tabellen, 5 Abbildungen
- Reihenbandnummer: 103
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