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Icons, Images, Interpretations: Arrian,Lukian, their Relationship, and Alexander at the Kydnos

open access: yesKaranos, 2018
Alexander was the most prominent Argead and one of the major figures in Second Sophistic literature. The Second Sophistic authors had their own respective images of Alexander, treatment of their sources, and intention to write about him.
Sabine Müller
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Mort du roi, mort du corps politique : l’irruption de la guerre civile à la mort d’Alexandre dans les Historiae Alexandri Magni de Quinte-Curce

open access: yesCahiers des Études Anciennes
Quintus Curtius Rufus did not end his Historiae Alexandri Magni with Alexander the Great’s death in 323 B.C. but continued his narrative for a few chapters to recount the stasis that followed in Babylon, culminating in the murder of three hundred ...
Claire Pérez
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Gog and Magog: the renditions of Alexander the Great from the context of different pre-Islamic to Islamic traditions. [PDF]

open access: yesPharos Journal of Theology, 2019
This article follows the one published in Verbum et Ecclesia (Sukdaven & Ahmed, 2017: 1-10) which is associated with the Timbuktu Project at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.
Dr Maniraj Sukdaven
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The death of Alexander the Great

open access: yesActa Academica
The circumstances of Alexander's death are reviewed. Since contemporary sources vary in their accounts of the reason for his death, they are briefly reviewed and assessed.
Louise Cilliers, Francois Retief
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Philia Networks in the Macedonian Court and the Long Accession of Alexander the Great

open access: yesKaranos, 2020
This paper revaluates key moments in the court politics of Alexander the Great’s reign through the introduction of philia-networks governed by gift-exchange as a template for explaining the relationships between key participants.
Julius Guthrie
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The political role of Barsine, the daughter of Artabazus

open access: yesУченые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки, 2017
The paper discusses the life of Barsine, the daughter of Artabazus. He was a Persian satrap. The purpose of the research is to determine Barsine's political role in the history of the ancient world. Along with the above-mentioned purpose, the task of the
Kilyashova K.A.
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Způsoby interpretace společného historického původu tádžických Pamírců

open access: yesAntropoWebzin, 2012
Collectively shared notion of a personal origin is often one of the sources of a group identity. For the Tajic Pamirs is a shared assumption of common origin one of the main arguments (the others are religion or language), by which they declare their ...
Tomáš Retka
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