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The Greek Alexander Romance

The Classical World, 1993
Mystery surrounds the parentage of Alexander, the prince born to Queen Olympias. Is his father Philip, King of Macedonia, or Nectanebo, the mysterious sorcerer who seduced the queen by trickery? One thing is certain: the boy is destined to conquer the known world.
Carl C. Schlam, Richard Stoneman
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Alexander between Rome and Carthage in the Alexander Romance (A)

Phoenix, 2023
Abstract: The Alexander Romance takes Alexander to Italy and to Carthage, synchronizing him with the First Punic War. It represents the Alexandrian perspective, commenting on Ptolemaic interests through Alexander's character. This interpretation adds to the recognized Ptolemaic elements in the AR and sheds new light on an event of the First Punic War.
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Alexander Romance in Central Asia

Translation Studies, 2023
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Oriental Motifs in the Alexander Romance

Antichthon, 1992
Over the centuries, the fabulous adventures of Alexander the Great have become as prominent in art and literature as his historical achievements. Medieval artists in particular are frequent sources of depictions of the hero in such adventures as the search for the water of life, the flight into the air in a basket borne by eagles, the descent into the ...
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Arrian and the Greek Alexander Romance

Classical World, 2007
This paper examines the Greek Alexander Romance from the point of view of narratology, looking at the motifs, patterns of storytelling, and ways that the Romance created the figure of Alexander. The same approach is applied to the work of Arrian, the most widely read and most reliable of the Alexander historians.
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A Persian Alexander Romance: The Cupbearer’s Functions in Niẓāmī’s Sharafnāma

International Journal of Persian Literature, 2020
Abstract The notion of “cupbearer” is central to Persian Bacchic poetry. The cupbearer appears in descriptions of convivial courtly gatherings from the earliest specimens of Persian poetry, usually as a young agreeable companion, adroit in dancing, music, and singing in the festive arena.
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The Alexander Romance by Ps.-Callisthenes

2017
The Alexander Romance by Ps.-Callisthenes is a historical commentary on a third century AD Greek fictional biography of Alexander the Great, the anonymous Historia Alexandri Magni. The text is used as a source for the Ancient History of Greece, Macedonia and Egypt.
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Portrait of Alexander in Persian Alexander-Romances of the Islamic Era

Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1977
Persian medieval romance-writers drew their knowledge of Alexander from the PseudoCallisthenes, Syriac sources, the Koran and Arabic legends of the Dhil-Qarnain (the Twohorned), and to a minor extent Persian material. Most writers Persianize Alexander and justify his attack against Darius.
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Naked philosophers: the Brahmans in the Alexander historians and the Alexander Romance

The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1995
The encounter of Alexander the Great with the Indian Brahmans or Oxydorkai/Oxydracae forms an important episode of the Alexander Romance as well as featuring in all the extant Alexander historians. The purpose of this paper is to consider how far the various accounts reflect genuine knowledge of India in the sources in which they are based, and to what
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The Alexander Romances in the Middle Ages

2018
This chapter examines how fantastic tales about Alexander's life and adventures after he had conquered the “known world,” were current soon after his death. Very possibly these were to some degree modelled on the early epic and heroic legends in Greek literature.
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