The Legend Of Alexander The Great On Greek And Roman Coins
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Author | : Karsten Dahmen |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2007-01-24 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 1134159714 |
This outstanding introductory survey collects, presents and examines, for the very first time, the portraits and representations of Alexander the Great on the ancient coins of the Greek and Roman period. From 320 BC to AD 400, Karsten Dahmen examines not only Alexander’s own coinage and the posthumous coinages of his successors, but also the re-use of his image by rulers from the Greek world and the Roman empire, to late antiquity. Also including numismatic material that exceeds all previous published works, and well-illustrated, this historical survey brings Alexander and his legacy to life.
Author | : Sir Karl Raimund Popper |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Experience |
ISBN | : 9789780415396 |
Author | : Frank L. Holt |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2003-11-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 052093878X |
To all those who witnessed his extraordinary conquests, from Albania to India, Alexander the Great appeared invincible. How Alexander himself promoted this appearance—how he abetted the belief that he enjoyed divine favor and commanded even the forces of nature against his enemies—is the subject of Frank L. Holt's absorbing book. Solid evidence for the "supernaturalized" Alexander lies in a rare series of medallions that depict the triumphant young king at war against the elephants, archers, and chariots of Rajah Porus of India at the Battle of the Hydaspes River. Recovered from Afghanistan and Iraq in sensational and sometimes perilous circumstances, these ancient artifacts have long animated the modern historical debate about Alexander. Holt's book, the first devoted to the mystery of these ancient medallions, takes us into the history of their discovery and interpretation, into the knowable facts of their manufacture and meaning, and, ultimately, into the king's own psyche and his frightening theology of war. The result is a valuable analysis of Alexander history and myth, a vivid account of numismatics, and a spellbinding look into the age-old mechanics of megalomania.
Author | : Alfred Raymond Bellinger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Coinage |
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Author | : Peter Thonemann |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 1107086965 |
An accessible, vivid and up-to-date student-level introduction to the coinage and history of the Hellenistic world (323-31 BC).
Author | : Richard A. Billows |
Publisher | : Abrams |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2018-06-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1468316419 |
In the arc of western history, Ancient Greece is at the apex, owing to its grandeur, its culture, and an intellectual renaissance to rival that of Europe. So important is Greece to history that figures such as Plato and Socrates are still household names, and the works of Homer are regularly adapted into movies. The most acclaimed hero of all, though, is Alexander the Great.While historians have studied Alexander’s achievements at length, author and professor Richard A. Billows delves deeper into the obscure periods of Alexander’s life before and after his reign. In the definitive Before and After Alexander, Billows explores the years preceding Alexander, who, Billows argues, without the foundation laid by his father, Philip II of Macedon. would not have had the resources or influence to develop one of the greatest empires in history. Alexander was groomed from a young age to succeed his father, and by the time Philip was assassinated in 336 BC, his great empire was already well underway.The years following Alexander's death were even more momentous. In this ambitious new work, Richard Billows robustly challenges the notion that the political strife that followed was for lack of a leader as competent as Alexander, pointing out instead that there were too many extremely capable leaders who exploited the power vacuum created by Alexander's death to carve out kingdoms for themselves.Above all, in Before and After Alexander, Billows eloquently and convincingly posits a complex view of one of the greatest empires in history, framing it not as the achievement of one man, but the culmination of several generations of aggressive expansion toward a unified purpose.
Author | : William E. Metcalf |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 707 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 0199372187 |
A broadly-illustrated overview of the contemporary state of Greco-Roman numismatic scholarship.
Author | : Otto Mørkholm |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1991-05-31 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 9780521395045 |
This book, first published in 1991, is a full study of early Hellenistic coinage. It provides a history of the coinage of Alexander the Great and his successors in the Near and Middle East, and of the cities of Greece and Asia Minor. It is fully illustrated and provides a detailed and authoritative guide to the coinage of the period.
Author | : G. F. Hill |
Publisher | : Alpha Edition |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2019-09-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789353868321 |
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Author | : Margarete Bieber |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |