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A Persian Alexander Romance: The Cupbearer’s Functions in Niẓāmī’s Sharafnāma
International Journal of Persian Literature, 2020Abstract 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
2017The 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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Naked philosophers: the Brahmans in the Alexander historians and the Alexander Romance
The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1995The 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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Portrait of Alexander in Persian Alexander-Romances of the Islamic Era
Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1977Persian 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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The Alexander Romances in the Middle Ages
2018This 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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