Historiographical Alexander: Alexander the Great and the Historians in XIXth and XXth Centuries
In a famous statement, Ulrich Wilcken argues that each historian has his own Alexander. A critical examination of the traditions in Historiographic Alexander allows to reconsider both our ideas of alterity and success, and how great can be a human being, or to what extent what was great in the past...
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| description | In a famous statement, Ulrich Wilcken argues that each historian has his own Alexander. A critical examination of the traditions in Historiographic Alexander allows to reconsider both our ideas of alterity and success, and how great can be a human being, or to what extent what was great in the past still has to be accepted as such in our present days. To sum up, to revisit Alexander from the eyes of the historians in the Contemporary Age offers a genuine opportunity to rethink History as such, and to evaluate how can we imagine new ways to explain the past in order to build a rich appreciation of the present in order to imagine brand new futures. The aim of the following pages is to review Alexander’s portraits and concerns in the works and scopes of the more recent historical traditions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1689542025-11-19T10:24:40Z Historiographical Alexander: Alexander the Great and the Historians in XIXth and XXth Centuries Antela-Bernádez, B. Mendoza, M. Alexander the Great Modern and Contemporary Historiography Droysen Tarn Paparrhegopoulos thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies In a famous statement, Ulrich Wilcken argues that each historian has his own Alexander. A critical examination of the traditions in Historiographic Alexander allows to reconsider both our ideas of alterity and success, and how great can be a human being, or to what extent what was great in the past still has to be accepted as such in our present days. To sum up, to revisit Alexander from the eyes of the historians in the Contemporary Age offers a genuine opportunity to rethink History as such, and to evaluate how can we imagine new ways to explain the past in order to build a rich appreciation of the present in order to imagine brand new futures. The aim of the following pages is to review Alexander’s portraits and concerns in the works and scopes of the more recent historical traditions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Published 2025-11-19T10:24:33Z 2025-11-19T10:24:33Z 2023-09 book 978-989-26-2461-7 978-989-26-2462-4 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/168954 eng Classica Digitalia: Autores Gregos e Latinos: textos image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://doi.org/10.14195/978-989-26-2462-4 Coimbra University Press Coimbra University Press 10.14195/978-989-26-2462-4 10.14195/978-989-26-2462-4 71c193a7-6c08-4e85-ae72-a002208589fd 978-989-26-2461-7 978-989-26-2462-4 Coimbra University Press 188 Coimbra open access |
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