Buongiorno a tutti, grazie di essere su Life is like a wave who rises and falls. Era da un po’ di tempo che pensieri e problemi mi tenevano lontana dalla lettura e ancor di più da Alessandro, ma ora sto riprendendo a leggere e sento che in qualche modo mi mancava leggere di Alessandro. Oggi vi parlo del libro:
Folly and Violence in the Court of Alexander the Great and his Successors?
di Tim Howe, Sabine Müller (eds.)
Projekt Verlag, 2016
ISBN: 978-3897333970, 59 pag.
The ancient Greco-Roman sources on the history of Alexander III and the Successors contain numerous episodes on diverse forms of Macedonian violence. Viewed from a mocking, moralistic perspective, the Macedonians served as a distorted mirror in which Greeks and Romans asserted their identities. The theme of Macedonian violence was also present in Greek comedy. This volume explores four case studies aiming at the deconstruction of these Greco-Roman topoi. The articles examine images of the Macedonians, Alexander, and Demetrius Poliorcetes analyzing the dimensions and expressions of Greco-Roman bias and its socio-political background.
CONTRIBUTI DI:
Sulochana Asirvatham is Associate Professor of Classics and General Humanities at Montclair State University (NJ, USA). She did her PhD in Classics at Columbia University, is coeditor of Between Magic and Religion: Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Mediterranean Religion and Society (Lanham, MA 2001) and has published widely on Greco-Roman historiography, with a focus on Alexander the Great.
Matti Borchert is a faculty member of the department of Ancient History of Marburg University. He studied Greek Philology, German Philology, and History at Kiel University and Innsbruck University and is doing his PhD in Ancient History. His special field of interest is the History of the Ancient Near East.
Tim Howe is Associate Professor of History at St. Olaf College, Minnesota, Senior Editor of The Ancient History Bulletin, and Associate Field Director of the Antiochia ad Cragum Archaeological Project (ACARP) in Southern Turkey. He studied History and Anthropology at Cal State, Chico, did his M.A. and Ph.D. at Penn State and teaches about the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Worlds. He has published widely on Mediterranean agriculture and trade, Alexander the Great, Ptolemy, ancient Mediterranean warfare, and Greek and Latin historiography.
Sabine Müller is Professor of Ancient History at Marburg University. She is the author of Das hellenistische Königspaar in der medialen Repräsentation. Ptolemaios II. und Arsinoë II. (Berlin/ New York 2009), Alexander, Makedonien und Persien (Berlin 2014) and Die Argeaden, Geschichte Makedoniens bis zum Zeitalter Alexanders des Großen (Paderborn 2016, forthcoming). She has also published on Ancient Persia, Lucian, Sulla, Sertorius, Nero and the Parthians, and the reception of antiquity.
Frances Pownall is Professor of History & Classics at the University of Alberta. She is the author of Lessons From the Past: The Moral Use of History in Fourth Century Prose (Michigan 2004), a number of articles on Greek history and historiography of the classical and Hellenistic periods, and translations and historical commentaries on important fragmentary Greek historians in Brill’s New Jacoby.
CONTENUTI:
Introduction: Does the cliché suffice? – Tim Howe, Sabine Müller – 7
Youthful Folly and Intergenerational Violence in Greco-Roman Narratives on Alexander the Great – Sulochana Asirvatham – 11
Between Debauchery and Ludicrousness – Alexander the Great and the Golden Plane Tree – Matti Borchert – 25
Make It Big: The “New Decadence” of the Macedonians under Philipp II and Alexander III in Greco-Roman Narratives – Sabine Müller – 35
Folly and Violence in Athens Under the Successors – Frances Pownall – 47
The Editors and Contributors – 59
Reading time: dal 26 al 27 gennaio 2022.
Lettura n° 2 del 2022.
Qualsiasi errore in questa recensione è solo mio e non degli autori, quindi per favore segnalatemeli e li correggerò subito! Grazie a tutti e mi scuso con gli autori.
Lo scopo di questo libro e dei loro contributi è di mostrare come le tradizioni greco-romane abbiano parlato dei Macedoni, di come li abbiano resi attraverso caricature ed esasperazioni. Cliccate sul link qui sotto per leggere la recensione intera.
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