Contested Pasts

Table of Contents

List of Images
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Contested Pasts: Alexander the Great and Determinist History
Great Man History and Determinism
Alexander, the Romans, and Determinist History
Alexander and Augustus
Roman Historiography and Alexander the Great
Chapter Contents
Chapter 2 Trojan War Reprisals
Alexander arrives at Susa: a Prelude
Susa and the Greek World
Alexander and Troy
In the Ages of Heroes: Trojan War 2.0
Thrice Reprised: The Romans and the Trojan War
Chapter 3 Writing Rivalry: The Persian Wars and the Battle of Thermopylae
Prelude
The Romans at Thermopylae
Thermopylae and the Succession of Empires
Re-writing Thermopylae
Subverting Spartan History
Chapter 4 Imagining Imperial Power Figures
The Context of the "Last Plans"
The Campaigns Against the Carthaginians and the West
The Road to the Pillars of Hercules
The Synoecism of Peoples from Europe and Asia
The Construction of Temples
The Tomb of Philip
Conclusion
Chapter 5 Alexander in Civil War(s)
Introduction
Antony and Octavian
Pompey's Imitatio Alexandri and the Sertorian Wars
History Rewritten: Two Alexanders
Chapter 6 Con(text)s of Invention: Alexander the Great at Jerusalem
Tyre
Babylon
Jerusalem
Inventing History in the 1st century CE
Alexandria
Conclusion
Contested Pasts: Conclusion
Contested Pasts: Bibliography

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• História antiga: a c 500 CE
• Estudos literários: clássica, primitiva e medieval
• História da Europa

Roman reception of Alexander the Great;Roman historiography;Great Man history;determinist history;Alexander the Great;Augustus;revisionist history;succession of empires;Troy;Persian Empire;Thermopylae;Diodorus;Last Plans of Alexander the Great;Roman civil wars;Jerusalem;Susa;Persian Wars;Trojan Wars;mnemohistory;teleology;Arrian;Plutarch