Olympias
Mother of Alexander the Great
Modern conventional wisdom knows Olympias as a pitiless and savage woman, practitioner of barbaric Dionysian rites compelled by jealousy and ruthless ambition to the murder of her rivals in order to secure her son's succession to the throne of Macedon. In this way she is credited for Alexander the Great's unprecedented achievements-yet the scale of her son's epic story has obscured her own.Such critical accounts of Olympias' actions have made unforgiving and often unfounded judgments of her motivations. This myth however originates from later Hellenic texts, to which her strength and tenacity represented an abhorrent contradiction to contempo…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-134-31819-3
- EAN: 9781134318193
- Produktnummer: 18407932
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'028 KB
- Abbildungen: 4 schwarz-weiße Fotos, 2 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen
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