Alexander the Great in Arrian`s ›Anabasis‹: A Literary Portrait 9783110658736

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Автор: Vasileios Liotsakis
Название: Alexander the Great in Arrian`s ›Anabasis‹: A Literary Portrait
ISBN: 9783110658736
Издательство: Walter de Gruyter
Классификация:

Литературоведение: Классическое, раннего, высокого и позднего средневековья до 1500 г.

ISBN-10: 3110658739
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 295
Вес: 0.55 кг.
Дата издания: 06.05.2019
Серия: Literature/Literary Studies
Язык: English
Размер: 234 x 156 x 21
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical
Поставляется из: Германии
Описание: Arrian’s Alexandrou Anabasis constitutes the most reliable account at our disposal about Alexander the Greats campaign in Asia. However, whereas the work has been thoroughly studied as a historical source, its literary qualities have been relatively neglected, with no autonomous monograph existing on this matter. Vasileios Liotsakis fills this gap in the studies of Alexander the Great’s literary tradition, by offering the first monograph on Arrian’s compositional strategies. Liotsakis focuses on the narrative techniques and verbal choices, through which Arrian allows praise and criticism to intermingle in his portrait of the Macedonian king. His main point of argument is that Arrian systematically exploits an abundance of narrative means (military descriptions, presentation of peoples, march-narratives, anachronies, and epic elements) in order to draw the reader’s attention not only to Alexander’s intellectual skills but also to the fact that the king was gradually corrupted by his success. This book puts Arrian’s literary contrivances under the microscope, sheds new light on unexplored aspects of the Anabasis’ narrative arrangement, and contributes to the studies of Alexander’s prosopography in Classical historiography.

Alexander the Great in Arrian`s ›Anabasis‹: A Literary Portrait, Vasileios Liotsakis