The Serpent Sire of Alexander the Great: A Palinode

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction 1
5. I The Transformation of Royal Authority: Personal Relationships at the Macedonian Court
6. Philip and Alexander and the Nature of Their Personal Kingship 17
7. Storm Clouds over Three Hellenistic Courts: Observations on the Life and Death of Ptolemy Ceraunus 33
8. II The Courts of Philip and Alexander in the Eyes of Contemporary Greeks
9. Diplomatic Activity at the Court of Philip II 57
10. Kairos, Mistrust of Tyranny and the Rhetoric of Court in Demosthenes’ Olynthiacs 79
11. The Exile of Demochares of Leuconoe Revisited 97
12. Philip II, Alexander III, and Members of Their Court in Greek Comedy 125
13. III The Influence of Persia and the Ancient Near East on Alexander’s Court
14. Bosworth on Alexander and the Iranians Revisited: Alexander’s Marriages to Persian Brides at Susa: A Study of Arrian, Anabasis 7.4.4–8 149
15. Two Conceptions of Court at Persepolis 169
16. Pothos or Propaganda? Alexander’s Longing to Reach the Ocean and Argead Imperial Ideology 189
17. IV Raising a Prince in the Macedonian Court: Stories of Alexander’s Birth and Education
18. The Serpent Sire of Alexander the Great: A Palinode 211
19. Educating Alexander: High Culture in the Argead Court through Ancient Texts 233
20. V Alexander’s Court in Retrospective
21. “The Best Man Among the Dead:” Alexander son of Ammon in an Alexandrian Inscription 255
22. Alexander or not? The Problem of Alexander-like Portraits in Roman Art 275
23. Index 299