Making Alexander ‘Great’ (or not so great) in Hammond’s and Bosworth’s scholarly biographies

Jaakkojuhani Peltonen

Making Alexander ‘Great’ (or not so great) in Hammond’s and Bosworth’s scholarly biographies

Jaakkojuhani Peltonen

Historia, filosofia ja kirjallisuustiede

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I explore how the different Alexanders have been created in the modern
academic field and what we can learn from it. The focus of this paper is on how scholars produce their narratives by using the ancient source material. As my primary material for this study, I have chosen two famous critical scholarly biographies: Hammond’s Alexander the Great: King, Commander and Statesman and Bosworth’s Conquest and Empire: The Reign of Alexander the Great. We can see how the two views; benign and cynical views are constructed in scholarly narratives. The narratives on Alexander’s action are promoting certain moralistic views of imperialism and war.

Alkuperäiskieli	Englanti
Otsikko	Historiographical Alexander: Alexander the Great and the Historians in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Toimittajat	Borja Antela-Bernárdez, Marc Mendoza
Kustantaja	IMPRENSA UNIVERSIDADE DE COIMBRA
Luku	7
Sivut	141-161
Sivumäärä	20
ISBN (elektroninen)	978-989-26-2462-4
ISBN (painettu)	978-989-26-2461-7
Tila	Julkaistu - 2023
OKM-julkaisutyyppi	A3 Kirjan tai muun kokoomateoksen osa

Julkaisusarja

Nimi	Série Humanitas Supplementum Estudos Monográficos
ISSN (painettu)	2182-8814

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Making_Alexander_Great_PeltonenFinal published version, 725 KBLisenssi: CC BY

http://monographs.uc.pt/iuc/catalog/view/357/871/1560-2Lisenssi: CC BY
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:tuni-202310249018Lisenssi: CC BY

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Peltonen, J. (2023). Making Alexander ‘Great’ (or not so great) in Hammond’s and Bosworth’s scholarly biographies. teoksessa B. Antela-Bernárdez, & M. Mendoza (Toimittajat), Historiographical Alexander: Alexander the Great and the Historians in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (Sivut 141-161). (Série Humanitas Supplementum Estudos Monográficos). IMPRENSA UNIVERSIDADE DE COIMBRA. http://monographs.uc.pt/iuc/catalog/view/357/871/1560-2

Peltonen, Jaakkojuhani. / Making Alexander ‘Great’ (or not so great) in Hammond’s and Bosworth’s scholarly biographies. Historiographical Alexander: Alexander the Great and the Historians in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Toimittaja / Borja Antela-Bernárdez ; Marc Mendoza. IMPRENSA UNIVERSIDADE DE COIMBRA, 2023. Sivut 141-161 (Série Humanitas Supplementum Estudos Monográficos).

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Historiographical Alexander: Alexander the Great and the Historians in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. toim. / Borja Antela-Bernárdez; Marc Mendoza. IMPRENSA UNIVERSIDADE DE COIMBRA, 2023. s. 141-161 (Série Humanitas Supplementum Estudos Monográficos).

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