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Oriental Motifs in the Alexander Romance
Antichthon, 1992Over 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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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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A Watery Folktale in the Alexander Romance : Alexander's Byzantine Neraïda
Syllecta Classica, 2009Alexander's mermaid, famous in Greek folktale, makes a brief but extraordinary appearance in the Alexander Romance . This analysis of her presence in a small set of Romance manuscripts reveals the unique work of a Byzantine redactor and his creative effort to merge this oral folktale into the fantastic portion of the literary Romance .
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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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Integrative oncology: Addressing the global challenges of cancer prevention and treatment
Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2022Jun J Mao,, Msce +2 more
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Chapter Six. The Coptic Alexander Romance
2011The Ethiopic Alexander romance is written in the old Ethiopic language Ge’ez, a Semitic language, belonging to the south-Semitic branch. Ethiopic literature in general, whether hagiographical, historical or theological, has always been marked by its fantastic, miraculous, and visionary elements, which reveal an attitude among the authors of Ethiopia ...
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Chapter Seven. The Ethiopic Alexander Romance
2011Walter was born in the vicinity of Lille, one life specifying Ronchin as the town of his birth. Walter studied in Paris under Stephen of Beauvais; one life adding that Walter studied with him at Rheims as well. The lives and manuscript notices give a number of different motivations for the composition of the Alexandreis, most focusing on Archbishop ...
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