Author: Robert Eugen Zachrisson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germanic philology
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
Includes section "Reviews".
Studia Neophilologica
Author: Robert Eugen Zachrisson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germanic philology
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
Includes section "Reviews".
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germanic philology
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
Includes section "Reviews".
The Greek Alexander Romance
Author: Richard Stoneman
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141907118
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
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. He grows up to fulfil this prophecy, building a mighty empire that spans from Greece and Italy to Africa and Asia. Begun soon after the real Alexander's death and expanded in the centuries that followed, The Greek Alexander Myth depicts the life and adventures of one of history's greatest heroes - taming the horse Bucephalus, meeting the Amazons and his quest to defeat the King of Persia. Including such elements of fantasy as Alexander's ascent to heaven borne by eagles, this literary masterpiece brilliantly evokes a lost age of heroism.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141907118
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
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. He grows up to fulfil this prophecy, building a mighty empire that spans from Greece and Italy to Africa and Asia. Begun soon after the real Alexander's death and expanded in the centuries that followed, The Greek Alexander Myth depicts the life and adventures of one of history's greatest heroes - taming the horse Bucephalus, meeting the Amazons and his quest to defeat the King of Persia. Including such elements of fantasy as Alexander's ascent to heaven borne by eagles, this literary masterpiece brilliantly evokes a lost age of heroism.
Alexander the Great
Author: Richard Stoneman
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300112033
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.) precipitated immense historical change in the Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. But the resonance his legend achieved over the next two millennia stretched even farther across foreign cultures, religious traditions, and distant nations. This engaging and handsomely illustrated book for the first time gathers together hundreds of the colorful Alexander legends that have been told and retold around the globe. Richard Stoneman, a foremost expert on the Alexander myths, introduces us first to the historical Alexander and then to the Alexander of legend, an unparalleled mythic icon who came to represent the heroic ideal in cultures from Egypt to Iceland, from Britain to Malaya. Alexander came to embody the concerns of Hellenistic man; he fueled Roman ideas on tyranny and kingship; he was a talisman for fourth-century pagans and a hero of chivalry in the early Middle Ages. He appears in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic writings, frequently as a prophet of God. Whether battling winged foxes or meeting with the Amazons, descending to the underworld or inventing the world s first diving bell, Alexander inspired as a hero, even a god. Stoneman traces Alexander s influence in ancient literature and folklore and in later literatures of east and west. His book provides the definitive account of the legends of Alexander the Great a powerful leader in life and an even more powerful figure in the history of literature and ideas."
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300112033
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.) precipitated immense historical change in the Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. But the resonance his legend achieved over the next two millennia stretched even farther across foreign cultures, religious traditions, and distant nations. This engaging and handsomely illustrated book for the first time gathers together hundreds of the colorful Alexander legends that have been told and retold around the globe. Richard Stoneman, a foremost expert on the Alexander myths, introduces us first to the historical Alexander and then to the Alexander of legend, an unparalleled mythic icon who came to represent the heroic ideal in cultures from Egypt to Iceland, from Britain to Malaya. Alexander came to embody the concerns of Hellenistic man; he fueled Roman ideas on tyranny and kingship; he was a talisman for fourth-century pagans and a hero of chivalry in the early Middle Ages. He appears in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic writings, frequently as a prophet of God. Whether battling winged foxes or meeting with the Amazons, descending to the underworld or inventing the world s first diving bell, Alexander inspired as a hero, even a god. Stoneman traces Alexander s influence in ancient literature and folklore and in later literatures of east and west. His book provides the definitive account of the legends of Alexander the Great a powerful leader in life and an even more powerful figure in the history of literature and ideas."
The Medieval Literature of Western Europe
Author: John Hugh Fisher
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
The Medieval French Alexander
Author: Donald Maddox
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791454435
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Explores the significance of Alexander the Great in French medieval literature and culture.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791454435
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Explores the significance of Alexander the Great in French medieval literature and culture.
The Medieval Alexander
Author: George Cary
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521108775
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Many books were written in the Middle Ages about Alexander the Great and still more books have been written about those books in the last hundred years. In this classic study of the medieval Alexander, first published in 1956, George Cary approached the problem from an altogether different angle, using material which none of his predecessors had exploited. He asked himself the simple question: What did people really think about Alexander in the Middle Ages? The resultant answers proved various and unexpected, changing from age to age and from group to group. Published posthumously, Cary's study was edited by D. J. A. Ross, who corrected certain details, added some footnotes and included an additional section on the Histoire ancienne jusqu'a Cesar. To this were also added a number of illustrative plates and an appendix on the origins of the Greek Alexander Romance.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521108775
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Many books were written in the Middle Ages about Alexander the Great and still more books have been written about those books in the last hundred years. In this classic study of the medieval Alexander, first published in 1956, George Cary approached the problem from an altogether different angle, using material which none of his predecessors had exploited. He asked himself the simple question: What did people really think about Alexander in the Middle Ages? The resultant answers proved various and unexpected, changing from age to age and from group to group. Published posthumously, Cary's study was edited by D. J. A. Ross, who corrected certain details, added some footnotes and included an additional section on the Histoire ancienne jusqu'a Cesar. To this were also added a number of illustrative plates and an appendix on the origins of the Greek Alexander Romance.
Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre
Author: Marquerite de Valois
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Iskandarnamah
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780231044165
Category : Civilization, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Translated selections from an anonymous court romance of the Alexander legend that is considered a masterpiece of Persian literature and the primary source for the Alexander stories of both the Middle East and Europe.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780231044165
Category : Civilization, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Translated selections from an anonymous court romance of the Alexander legend that is considered a masterpiece of Persian literature and the primary source for the Alexander stories of both the Middle East and Europe.
Founders of the Middle Ages
Author: Edward Kennard Rand
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
"The chapters of this book were delivered as lectures before the Lowell Institute of Boston in January and February, 1928"--Pref. "List of books": pages [285]-286. The church and pagan culture: the problem; the solution.--St. Ambrose, the mystic.--St. Jerome the humanist.--Boethius, the first of the scholastics.--The new poetry.--The new education.--St. Augustine and Dante.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
"The chapters of this book were delivered as lectures before the Lowell Institute of Boston in January and February, 1928"--Pref. "List of books": pages [285]-286. The church and pagan culture: the problem; the solution.--St. Ambrose, the mystic.--St. Jerome the humanist.--Boethius, the first of the scholastics.--The new poetry.--The new education.--St. Augustine and Dante.
The Gateway to the Middle Ages
Author: Eleanor Shipley Duckett
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472060504
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Portrays France and Britain at the beginning of the Dark Ages
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472060504
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Portrays France and Britain at the beginning of the Dark Ages