Alexander the Great from Britain to Southeast Asia: peripheral empires in the global renaissance

No figure has had a more global impact than Alexander the Great, whose legends have encircled the globe and been translated into a dizzying multitude of languages, from Indo-European and Semitic to Turkic and Austronesian. This text examines parallel traditions of the Alexander Romance in Britain an...

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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford, United Kingdom Oxford University Press 2019
Ausgabe:First edition
Schriftenreihe:Classical presences
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Zusammenfassung:No figure has had a more global impact than Alexander the Great, whose legends have encircled the globe and been translated into a dizzying multitude of languages, from Indo-European and Semitic to Turkic and Austronesian. This text examines parallel traditions of the Alexander Romance in Britain and Southeast Asia, demonstrating how rival Alexanders - one Christian, the other Islamic - became central figures in their respective literatures
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 404 Seiten) Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:9780191864803
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198777687.001.0001

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