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La ricezione dell’ultimo Alessandro

Mirabilia e violenza al di qua e al di là dell’Indo
  • Edited by: Francesca Piccioni , Elisabetta Poddighe and Tiziana Pontillo
Language: Italian
Published/Copyright: 2024
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This volume contains 18 papers presented at the International Conference "Mirabilia and violence around the Indus. The last years of Alexander the Great in Latin, Greek and Sanskrit literary reception", held at the University of Cagliari (8-10 March 2023). Divided into three thematic sections (Il mondo classico; L'India e la Cina; Medioevo e Rinascimento), the essays differ in the linguistic varieties of the primary sources analysed, in the chronological range from the first Hellenism to the Renaissance, and in the approach adopted, historical or philological-literary. However, a common thread runs through all the works: the reception of Alexander from a broad and multifocal perspective, ranging from the description of the mirabilia associated with the late Eastern campaign to the contrasting characterisation of the king as a 'philosopher in arms' and an unbridled conqueror. With contributions from several experts in the specific subject and in the various disciplines involved, this book offers an interdisciplinary approach that can stimulate scholars and students in a variety of fields.

Il volume raccoglie 18 contributi, ordinati in tre sezioni tematiche (Il mondo classico; L’India e la Cina; Medioevo e Rinascimento). Si tratta di lavori differenti per varietà delle fonti, cronologia (dal primo Ellenismo all’Umanesimo) e approccio (storico e filologico-letterario), in un ideale dialogo tra cultori di discipline diverse e tra Occidente e Oriente antico, nella prospettiva unificante degli studi sulla ricezione di Alessandro Magno.

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Francesca Piccioni, Elisabetta Poddighe and Tiziana Pontillo, Università di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy.

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Frontmatter

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Indice

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Premessa

Francesca Piccioni, Elisabetta Poddighe and Tiziana Pontillo
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Sez. 1: Il mondo classico
Alessandro, Aristotele e l’unità dell’impero: per uno stato dell’arte fra ricezione di Alessandro e critica aristotelica

Elisabetta Poddighe
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Terre per un re, piante per un botanico! Alessandro Magno, i paesi delle spezie, le ricerche di Teofrasto

Giuseppe Squillace
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De l’Indus au Nil, Alexandre et la mousson (Arr. Anab. 6.1 et Strab. 15.1)

Didier Marcotte
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«Μᾶλλον λεγομένην ἢ φαινομένην ὁμοιότητα» (Plut. Pomp. 2.2): Pompeo e Alessandro nella prospettiva di Plutarco

Francesca Cau
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These Men Are on Fire. Metafore e potere nelle Vite di Alessandro e di Cesare di Plutarco

Morena Deriu
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Alessandro ‘bipolare’: il filosofo e il conquistatore nelle fonti della Seconda Sofistica

Francesca Piccioni
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Il mirabile nel De mundo di Apuleio: una teoria filosofica della meraviglia tra Platone, Aristotele e Alessandro

Matteo Stefani
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Alessandro ‘omerico’ nel Romanzo di Alessandro

Tristano Gargiulo
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I mirabilia Indiae nel Commonitorium Palladii

Raffaella Tabacco
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Sez. 2: L’India e la Cina
Alexander’s Impact on Indian Religions

Johannes Bronkhorst
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What Was the πάτριος νόμος of the Sophists with Whom Onesicritus Conversed (Strab. 15.1.64): Some Fresh Data from Vedic Sources

Tiziana Pontillo
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The Seleucid Influence on the Gandhāran Administrative System. A Study on the Greek-Derived Political Offices with Special Reference to the Indo-Scythian Kingdom of Apraca

Maria Piera Candotti and Alessandro Giudice
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Alexander the Great: Homo Mirabilis within Chinese and Mongolian Sources. The Transmission of Legendary Narratives from West to East

Francesca Fariello
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Sez. 3: Medioevo e Rinascimento
L’interpretazione cristiana della figura di Alessandro e l’Apocalisse dello Pseudo-Metodio

Francesco Testa
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The Wonders of Historiography: The Medieval Latin Alexander Narratives and Manuscript Contexts of Justin, Orosius, and the Historia de Preliis

Venetia Bridges
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Enquête sur la réception de la ‘légende noire’ d’Alexandre dans la littérature byzantine

Corinne Jouanno
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L’acqua immortale e la Bella dei Monti: folklore, mirabilia e ironia in un episodio del Romanzo di Alessandro

Tommaso Braccini
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La presenza delle fonti greche su Alessandro nel dibattito umanistico durante la prima metà del Quattrocento

Giancarlo Abbamonte
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Indici
Introduction

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Indice dei passi citati

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Indice dei nomi antichi

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Indice dei nomi moderni

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Indice dei toponimi e degli etnonimi

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eBook published on:
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eBook ISBN:
9783111427614
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August 6, 2024
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9783111407944
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Front matter:
11
Main content:
447
Coloured Illustrations:
14
Tables:
5
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111427614
eBook ISBN: 9783111427614
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Keywords for this book
Alexander; Macedonia; King; Classical antiquity; Indus; reception
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Classical scholars, historians, philologists, indologists, students
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