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Jahosky, Michael T. "Alexander the Great : anointed with lighting." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2008. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1091.
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English, Stephen. "The campaigns of Alexander the Great." Thesis, Durham University, 2009. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1346/.
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The purpose of this thesis is an examination of the military career of Alexander the Great. The intention is to reconstruct and examine every campaign of Alexander's brief reign, and to determine what the tactics and strategies were that allowed his unparalleled success; further to determine if there was a development in tactical or strategic thought during his life. Chapter 1 considers Alexander's first campaign in the Balkans and northern Greece. Chapter2 discussesth e Battle of the GranicusR iver, and attemptsa n entirely new theory. Chapter 3 is a discussion of the sieges of Miletus and Halicarnassus. Chapter 4 contains an examination of the campaign of Issus. Chapter 5 concentrates on the sieges of Tyre and Gaza. Chapter 6 discusses the battle of Gaugamela. Chapter 7 concentrates on the campaign on the north-east frontier: Bactria and Sogdiana. Chapter 8 focuses on the campaign in India, culminating in the battle of the Hydaspes River. Chapter 9 is an examination of the journey back to Babylon: the final campaign. Chapter 10 is the conclusion which draws together the arguments which run through the thesis. The copyright of this thesis rest with the author: no quotation from it should be published without his prior consent and information derived from it should be acknowledged. I allow consultation by bona fide scholars without delay. The material in this thesis has not been previously submitted for a degree in this or any other university. This thesis consists of approximately 99,700 words, and thus conforms to the word limit set out in the Durham University degree regulations.
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Taietti, G. D. "The Greek reception of Alexander the Great." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2017. http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3007776/.
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The present thesis explores how the personality, image, and deeds of Alexander the Great have been interpreted, reshaped, and exploited by the Greeks from Antiquity to the Modern era. The main focus is the understanding of the metamorphosis of the historical persona of Alexander into a god-like mythological figure and a Hellenic national hero, researching the origins of the Alexander-myth and how it operates in response to different historico-political, social and cultural stimuli for the Greeks. The thesis is structured in two sections: first, the modern, and secondly, the ancient, which, while displaying its variety, also highlight the overall organic nature of the ongoing Greek Alexander-Reception. The first section offers an introduction to the peculiarities of the Modern myth-making of Alexander (chapter one); it explores the reshaping of the Macedonian hero in Hellenic folk production, such as tales, myths, traditions, spells and songs (chapter two), and in Theodore Angelopoulos’ debated film Megalexandros (chapter three). The second section discusses the Ancient myth-making of Alexander and its relevance in the twenty-century Greek cultural and political milieu (chapter four); specifically, it focuses on the reshaping and interpretation of the king of Macedon by Ptolemy I (chapter five) and by Julian the Apostate and his entourage (chapter six). This section concludes with a study on the early representations of Alexander, which shows how his contemporary historians borrowed from Herodotus narrative tropes and descriptions of the Achaemenids to explain the Macedonian campaign against Persia, making him a Herototean-like Persian king and creating a fictional character that, to a certain extent, dates back before the historical persona. The case-studies jointly argue that Alexander is a historiographical mirage constantly reinvented by the Greeks, who ascribe to him new deeds, legends, and characteristics according to their historical and cultural needs. The Macedonian hero moves forward into the next period charged with all the previous meanings, which he will deliver to his new audience. In this way, Alexander is both the recipient and the bearer of the Greeks’ cultural identity.
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Howell, Patrick. "Alexander the Great and the English novel." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11948.
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Includes bibliographical references.This work focuses on the manner in which Alexander the Great is received and reconfigured within the confines of the contemporary English-language novel. The Macedonian king has held the attention of writers and artists throughout the centuries; this dissertation seeks to investigate how modern authors, working at a remove of centuries, with limited evidence, have contrived to fashion coherent literary narratives from his life, and how this process is influenced by the authors and the society for which they write. The theoretical backbone of this approach is provided by reception theory, which provides a useful technical vocabulary and outlook by which to approach the phenomena which affect the comprehension of, and subsequent re-appropriation, of cultural artifacts.
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Djurslev, Christian Thrue Djurslev. "The Christian Alexander : the use of Alexander the Great in early Christian literature." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/20140.
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The aim of the present study is to examine how the legacy of Alexander was appropriated, altered and used in arguments in early Christian discourse (c. 200-600). There is an inventory of all the early Christian references to Alexander in Appendix 1. The structure of the thesis is conceived as an unequal triptych: it is divided into three parts with subdivisions into three chapters of varying lengths (Part III contains two chapters and the thesis conclusion). Each part is prefaced with a short description of its contents. Each chapter within those parts have a preliminary remark to introduce the principal subject area with a brief conclusion in the back of it. Part I explores the Alexander traditions of three geographical centres of the Christian world: Alexandria (Ch. 1), Jerusalem (Ch. 2) and Rome (Ch. 3). It shows how the Jewish tales from these cities, such as the Josephan tale about Alexander’s visit to Jerusalem, were used in a variety of diverging, often contradictory, ways. Part II turns to the writings of the apologists in the second and third centuries. It discusses three prevalent themes associated with Alexander: historiography (Ch. 4), divine honours (Ch. 5) and Greek philosophy (Ch. 6). Part III moves on to the central texts and Alexander themes in the fourth to sixth centuries. It focuses on his role in Christian chronicles, church histories and representations of their world (Ch. 7), and also the rhetorical use of the figure in Christian preaching and public speaking (Ch. 8). Taken together, these three parts form the overarching argument that Alexander did not only fill many diverse roles in Christian representations of the remote past, but also featured in contemporary discourse on Christian culture, identities and societies, as well as in arguments made on behalf of the Christian religion itself. Indeed, the Christians frequently juxtapose the figure with distinctively Christian features, such as the life of Jesus, the Apostles, the church, sacred cities and holy spaces. They incorporate him into discourses on peace, mercy, generosity and abstinence. In other words, they repeatedly made Alexander relevant for what they considered important and, thus, created their own distinct discourse on the figure.
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Stone, Charles Russell. "A dubious hero for the time Roman histories of Alexander the Great in Plantagenet England /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1872217431&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Roberts, Andrew John. "Alexander the Great in British politics and thought (c.1660-1800)." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2014. http://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/alexander-the-great-in-british-politics-and-thought-c16601800(89a74cfd-26b9-4939-a832-5d400c9d0387).html.
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The profound relationship between Alexander the Great and British political discourse has been documented in the nineteenth century (for example, Vasunia 2007 and Hagerman 2009). Yet, beyond articles covering the historiography of the Scottish Enlightenment (Briant 2005) or case studies of his particularly negative repute in post-Restoration literature (Brauer 1980 and Wild 2004), little research has been conducted into the eighteenth-century Alexander. Focussing on the period between the Restoration and the Napoleonic Wars, this thesis explores how Alexander was used in discourse on martial achievement, heroic virtue, conquest and empire in British political thought. Concomitantly, it will discuss how various discourses, writers and imitators effected the conception of Alexander. The first chapter introduces a range of political appropriations of Alexander that emerged during the Restoration. The second chapter focuses on the discourse on civic virtue in English writing from the 1690s to the 1760s, to understand why Alexander’s character and achievements were criticised. The third chapter assess the deployment of Alexander in historical writing as a vexed and protean model for thinking through the ideologies of empire, from the 1690s until the 1790s. The fourth chapter investigates the British reaction to Napoleon Bonaparte, and particularly his invasion of Egypt. A final concluding chapter provides some reflections on the repute of Alexander in the nineteenth century. The evidence used in this thesis includes acts of Alexander imitatio by British and non-British figures, a range of different types of comparatio in drama and poetry, and works of history.
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Collins, Andrew William, and n/a. "The transformation of Alexander�s court : the kingship, royal insignia and eastern court personnel of Alexander the Great." University of Otago. Department of Classics, 2008. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20080811.093142.
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This thesis examines Alexander�s conception of kingship, his relationship with royal traditions in the three great kingdoms of the Near East, and the concomitant transformation of the king�s court by which Alexander created a distinctive royal insignia and introduced new court personnel and protocol. Section I ("Alexander and Near Eastern Kingship") contains Chapters I, II, and III. Section II ("The Transformation") comprises Chapters IV to VI. In Chapter I, I examine the Macedonian background of Alexander�s court and his native conception of kingship. Chapter II is a study of the kingship of Egypt. Chapter III deals with the kingship of Babylon and Persia. I then turn to an analysis of Alexander�s policies towards the Persians and the concept of the "kingship of Asia," as this was understood by Alexander. This crucial concept is to be distinguished from the kingship of Persia, a position which Alexander supplanted and replaced with his personal kingship of Asia. In Section II, three chapters are devoted to an analysis of the transformation of Alexander�s court. Chapter IV covers the origin and significance of Alexander�s royal insignia. Chapter V examines the introduction of, and the role played by, Persians and easterners in the king�s court; and Chapter VI the significance of other Persian court offices.
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Schmidt, Victor Michael. "A legend and its image : the aerial flight of Alexander the Great in medieval art /." Groningen : E. Forsten, 1995. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb36684522j.
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Camozzi, Pistoja Ambrogio. "Dante and the medieval Alexander." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.648418.
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Harris, Scott H. ""The Great Unappreciated Man": A Political Profile of Alexander H H Stuart of Virginia." W&M ScholarWorks, 1988. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625475.
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Wailes-Fairbairn, Fiona. "Alexander the Great : a case study in German attitudes to greatness between Napoleon and Hitler." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.332862.
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Snowball, Jen, and Willliam David Snowball. "Five unpublished coins of Alexander the Great and his successors in the Rhodes University Collection." Akroterion, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/68489.
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Publisher versionThe article briefly discusses the economic and political significance of the Alexander III (“the Great”) type silver tetradrachm and publishes three of his coins currently held by the Rhodes University Classics Museum. Based on stylistic elements, they are classified as from the Amphipolis and Arados mints and were probably minted during his lifetime. Two further tetradrachms from the empires of Alexander’s successors, Ptolemy II and Seleucus IV, are also published.
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Lang, Alexander [Verfasser]. "Assessment of vaccination strategies against Bacillus cereus biovar anthracis in wild great apes / Alexander Lang." Berlin : Freie Universität Berlin, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1214241271/34.
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Ryan, James Richard. "Surpassing all other kings : Mesopotamian kingship ideology in the Gilgamesh tradition and the Alexander the Great narratives." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2017. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/surpassing-all-other-kings(e7e5102e-968c-48ab-b51e-c9e25b623065).html.
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This thesis identifies and elucidates a common engagement with Mesopotamian kingship ideology in the Gilgamesh and the Alexander the Great narrative traditions. As both archetypal monarchs are understood to have ruled as kings in Mesopotamia, this is a much more secure context for comparison. The result of this contextualisation is that the identified parallels are better supported and more clearly understood. Although the study is rendered in comparison, the exegesis of the episodes is not strictly bound by parallels between the traditions. The primary concern is a comparable engagement with Mesopotamian kingship ideology. This enables the thesis to contribute uniquely to the study of each figure’s kingship, as well as their comparative dynamic. Mesopotamian kingship was a contest, and our two subject kings represent rivals for the pinnacle in this arena. Therefore, the identification and presentation of a king to surpass all others is argued for both in presented deeds and persevering legends. Chapter one outlines the premise of the thesis, addresses previous comparisons made in scholarship between the subject kings, and discusses the evidence. Specifically, this is the network of narratives utilised by the study. For the Gilgamesh tradition, these are the Akkadian language manuscripts of the Gilgamesh Epic and the Sumerian Gilgamesh poems concerning the death of Gilgamesh and his campaign against Huwawa. For the Alexander tradition, the study is limited to the Alexander narratives that share a relative geographically congruence with the Gilgamesh narratives. These are the canonical Graeco-Roman Alexander narratives by Diodorus, Curtius, Plutarch, Arrian, and Justin, as well as the Pseudo-Callisthenes narratives, the Syriac Alexander Legend and the Syriac Metric Homily. Chapter two outlines the methodology. Chapter three contextualises Gilgamesh’s campaign against Humbaba in Mesopotamian kingly action. Chapter four argues for a comparative understanding of Alexander’s siege of Tyre. Chapter five then compares the death of a king in each tradition, and chapter six the subsequent mythical wanderings of our protagonist kings. Chapter seven provides the thesis’ conclusion. The overarching themes are the legitimisation of one’s kingship and the transfer of power in the Mesopotamian royal tradition.
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Scheer, F. Alexander [Verfasser]. "Three Essays in Macroeconomics : Implications of the Great Recession for Fiscal and Monetary Policy / F. Alexander Scheer." Bonn : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1206246006/34.
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Yakoubovitch, Igor. "Les Historiae Alexandri Magni de Quinte-Curce : le mythe d’Alexandre et la représentation du pouvoir à Rome (Ier siècle ap. J.-C.)." Thesis, Paris 10, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA100180/document.
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Considéré comme un historien qui sacrifie rigueur et exactitude à son souci de la rhétorique, Quinte-Curce jouit, et avec lui son histoire « romancée », d’une réputation en demi-teinte. Au-delà de faiblesses et d’un mélange des genres entre histoire, morale et rhétorique du reste caractéristiques de l’ensemble de l’historiographie romaine, les Historiae Alexandri Magni constituent un témoignage intéressant sur la représentation du pouvoir à Rome au Ier siècle de n.è. En s’appuyant sur un portrait rigoureusement construit, Quinte-Curce met en relief l’évolution du Conquérant, soumis à la tentation de l’Orient, de la fortune et de ses modèles héroïques. L’historien se livre alors à une véritable entreprise de démystification qui touche la nature même de cet Orient merveilleux, la fortune providentielle dont se réclame le Macédonien et même le langage. Sont ainsi condamnés la quête effrénée de gloire que poursuit le roi, et son rêve de divinisation : l’Orient est synonyme de renversement généralisé des normes et des valeurs, la fortune une illusion conduisant à un sentiment d’impunité. En déconstruisant la propagande d’Alexandre, Quinte-Curce révèle alors un autre imaginaire – le sien – en même temps qu’une idéologie. En filigrane, il propose aussi un idéal du pouvoir qui repose essentiellement sur l’équilibre et sur la responsabilité du prince. Par là, il interroge, au regard des réalités politiques de son temps, la pertinence d’un mythe central dans l’imaginaire politique romain et dont l’ombre plane sur tous les ambitieux, à commencer par les empereurs ou les candidats à l’Empire. Son récit bien mené incite donc à une réflexion réelle sur l’exercice du pouvoir, ses enjeux et ses limitesConsidered a historian who sacrifices his rigor and accuracy for the sake of rhetoric, Curtius Rufus enjoys, and with him his “fictionalized” history as well, a halftone reputation. Notwithstanding its shortcomings and a mixture of genres between history, moral and rhetoric, which are also typical of the entire Roman historiography, the Historiae Alexandri Magni are an interesting testimony of the representation of power in Rome in the first century A.D. Building on a rigorously constructed portrait, Quintus Curtius highlights the evolution of the Conqueror, subject to the temptations of the East, of fortune and its heroic models. The historian attempts to debunk the very nature of this wonderful East, the providential fortune claimed by Macedonian, and even language. The unbridled quest for glory pursued by the king and his dream of deification are here condemned: the East stands for a general inversion of norms and values, and fortune becomes an illusion leading to a feeling of impunity. By deconstructing Alexander's propaganda, Curtius then reveals another imaginary—his own—along with an ideology. Implicitly, it also proposes an ideal of power mainly based on balance and on the responsibility of the prince. The historian questions the relevance of a central myth of the Roman political imagination in the political context of the times, whose shadow looms over all ambitious men, starting with emperors or candidates for the Empire. His well crafted narrative is a call for a reflection on the actual exercise of power, its challenges and limitations
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Ashurst, David. "A Study in the ethics of empire in the Saga of Alexander the Great based on MS AM 519a 4to." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.411075.
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Daniotti, Claudia. "On the cusp of legend and history : the myth of Alexander the Great in Italy between the fifteenth and sixteenth century." Thesis, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2016. http://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/6350/.
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This dissertation concerns the reception of the myth of Alexander the Great in Italian art during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. In particular, I discuss the turning-point in the tradition which took place in Renaissance Italy around the middle of the fifteenth century: the transition from the medieval imagery of Alexander as a legendary, almost fairy-tale, figure to the historical portrait of him as an exemplum of moral virtue and military prowess. On the basis of the corpus known as the Alexander Romance, during the Middle Ages Alexander was depicted as a fabled explorer and knight, whose marvellous adventures enjoyed huge popularity both in the literary tradition and in the visual arts. Around the mid-fifteenth century, with the changing cultural atmosphere associated with the rise of humanism, this medieval conception was superseded by a different image of Alexander, drawing on the newly discovered ancient historical accounts of Plutarch, Curtius Rufus, Arrian and Diodorus Siculus. There are five chapters, all illustrated, plus an introduction and conclusion. Chapter 1 provides an overview of the literary and iconographic tradition of Alexander in Italy from 1100 to 1400, exploring the most popular episodes from the legend. In Chapter 2, I present examples of the persistence of the legendary tradition in the Quattrocento (especially, some fresco cycles of the Nine Worthies). Chapter 3 is concerned with the humanist recovery of ancient sources and its impact on the received view of Alexander; the important contribution of Petrarch and Boccaccio is also examined. Chapter 4 deals with the emergence of a new Renaissance portrait of Alexander around 1450, notably in paintings on marriage chests. In Chapter 5 I discuss the development of this new image of Alexander in the sixteenth century, with the establishment of an iconographic repertoire, centring on novel episodes taken from ancient historical sources.
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Loos, Alexander [Verfasser], Karlheinz [Akademischer Betreuer] Brandenburg, Gerhard [Akademischer Betreuer] Linß, and Tilo [Akademischer Betreuer] Burghardt. "Face Recognition for Great Apes - Identification of Primates in Real-World Environments / Alexander Loos. Betreuer: Karlheinz Brandenburg. Gutachter: Gerhard Linß ; Tilo Burghardt." Ilmenau : Universitätsbibliothek Ilmenau, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1096220954/34.
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Handel, Katharine. "French writing in the cloister : four texts from St Albans Abbey featuring Thomas Becket and Alexander the Great, c. 1184 - c. 1275." Thesis, University of York, 2015. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/11350/.
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This thesis focuses on four insular French texts produced between c. 1184 and c. 1275 that can be connected to the abbey of St Albans: Beneit of St Albans' Life of Thomas Becket, four fragmentary illustrated leaves known as the Becket Leaves, Thomas of Kent's Roman de toute chevalerie (a romance about Alexander the Great), and the anonymous Estoire le rei Alixaundre. Despite St Albans' wealth and status in the Middle Ages, these texts have received very little attention from literary scholars. I have rectified this by providing detailed readings of all four texts. My work also considers the texts' potential audiences, taking into account both monastic and secular reception, and reads them in the light of their contemporary literary, cultural, and political circumstances. Throughout, the thesis considers the implications of the choice of French as a language of composition. It uses predominantly literary methodologies in a historicising mode, and also examines the manuscript culture of each text. This thesis is split into two parts, each with two chapters and an introduction setting the St Albans texts into their wider literary contexts. The first half of the thesis deals with the lives of Thomas Becket, with particular reference to how the two St Albans texts are distinct in the corpus of biographies of Becket in their approaches to Becket and Henry II. The second half covers the two narratives of Alexander the Great, which are the only surviving insular French Alexander texts. Analysis of these four exceptional texts provides an insight into the audiences St Albans was hoping to attract and also the abbey's attempt to style itself as a counsellor to those in power.
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Morrison, Barrs Eanna. "'Great British Fashion Is...' : An Institutional Analysis of Vogue and the V&A." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Modevetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-184198.
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Both the fashion magazine and the fashion exhibition are powerful and authoritative sites for the representation, interpretation, and construction of fashion. Despite various intersections between the two, their relationship has remained relatively unstudied. This thesis aims to reveal and problematize the relationship between leading institutions in the United Kingdom: British Vogue and the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A). An analysis of British Vogue’s content and the V&A’s fashion exhibitions of Vivienne Westwood: 34 Years in Fashion (2004) and Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty (2015) is employed in order to unpack how these institutions are involved in defining and institutionalizing what fashion is in a national context. This institutional analysis considers the wider implications of the conception of British fashion produced by these institutions in regard to class, race, and gender, as Great British fashion is dependent on a system of representations that reveals hierarchies and exclusions.
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Foubert, Frédéric. "Les Res gestae Alexandri Macedonis de Julius Valerius: études lexicales, syntaxiques et stylistiques." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210611.
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Les conquêtes et les hauts faits d’Alexandre le Grand ont fait l’objet d’une tradition romanesque à laquelle est donné le titre générique de Roman d’Alexandre ;elle est connue par le biais de nombreuses versions, traductions et adaptations. L’objectif de la thèse est d’évaluer les prétentions littéraires des Res gestae Alexandri Macedonis de Julius Valerius, première version latine connue de ce Roman. Le texte – envisagé comme objet littéraire autonome, en raison, notamment, de la perte de l’original grec dont il constitue la traduction – a été analysé au travers de trois séries d’études, portant sur le lexique, la syntaxe verbale et les figures de style. Effectués sur la base de la dernière édition de référence (ROSELLINI 2004²), ces dépouillements offrent la première vision approfondie des ambitions qui caractérisent la démarche de l’auteur ;ils ont permis en outre d’envisager, à titre d’hypothèse, l’objectif de ce dernier :dans un monde en voie de christianisation, donner à l’élite politique et culturelle un nouvel accès à texte consacré à l’une des figures les plus célèbres de la culture païenne.Doctorat en Langues et lettres
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Koroleva, Elena. "Écrire l’histoire universelle au Moyen Âge : alexandre le Grand et l'histoire de la Macédoine dans les chroniques du Nord de la France (XIIIè-XVè siècles)." Thesis, Lille, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018LIL3H050.
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Le présent travail est consacré aux récits de la vie d'Alexandre incorporés aux trois histoires universelles que sont la Chronique dite de Baudoin d'Avesnes, composée par un écrivain anonyme entre 1278 et 1281, et deux versions de la Fleur des histoires, écrites par le même auteur, Jean Mansel, fonctionnaire à la cour de Bourgogne, respectivement dans les années 1140 et 1460. Le choix de ces trois textes s'explique par leur origine géographique commune, par les relations qu'ils entretiennent entre eux, par leurs modalités de diffusion et de réception similaires. Provenant du Nord de la France, très lus par les lecteurs nobles de la fin du moyen Age, ils constituent un corpus unifié inédit et restent un champ presque vierge pour la recherche. Les trois oeuvres accordent une place majeure à la vie d'Alexandre le Grand et à l'historie de son empire, en exploitant des sources différentes, des chroniques universelles de l'Antiquité tardive, comme celle d'Orose, aux textes d'inspiration courtoise comme les Voeux du paon de Jacques de Longuyon. La thèse comprend une étude de la tradition manuscrite des trois textes, une recherche sur leurs auteurs, leurs mécènes et leurs lecteurs, une analyse des stratégies de réécriture élaborées pour recomposer le portrait d'Alexandre et intégrer sa vie dans le continuum d'une histoire universelle ainsi qu'une étude des fonctions que les auteurs lui accordent dans l'histoire de l'humanité. Elle édite en annexe les prologues des chroniques et les trois récits de la vie d'AlexandreThe present study examines the life of Alexander the Great as it is told in three universal chronicles, the Chronique dite de Baudoin d'Avesnes, written by an anonymous historian between 1278 and 1281, and two versions of the Fleur des histoires, composed in 1440s and in 1460s, respectively, by Jean mansel, a functionary at the Burgundian court. The three texts have a common geographical provenance and were read by the same readers ; furthermore, Mansel borrowed extensively from his predecessor to create the two versions of his chronicle. Despite evidence, of their wide readership in the Middle Ages, these texts remain largely unknown to modern researchers. The shared genre model, geographical and intellectual connections between these chronicles, on the one hand, and their paradoxical status of once well-known and now nearly forgotten texts, on the other, have prompted the decision to study them together. On crucial link between these works is the prominence their authors give to Alexander the Great and the variety of sources they use to tell his story, ranging from universal chronicles of the late Antiquity, such as Orosius' Historiae, to courtly romances such as Jacques de Longuyon' Voeux du paon. Our thesis comprises firstly, a study of the manuscript tradition of the three texts, with an emphasis on the role authors of the chronicles, their patrons and readers played in the creation and dissemination of various textual versions, followed by an analysis of the strategies employed by the authors to rewrite the story of Alexander's life in order to integrate it in the continuum of universal history and, finally, an examination of the roles assigned to the Macedonian king in the history of the humanity. The appendices contain an edition of the prologues and of the three accounts of Alexander's life
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Moretti, Angela. "Aristobulo di Cassandrea." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3423404.
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This thesis concerns Aristobulus of Cassandrea, a historian of Alexander the Great, who followed the Macedonian king during his expedition in Asia and wrote a book about these events. This work is lost. At the beginning of this study there is the corpus of Aristobulus’ fragments edited by Felix Jacoby in his Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker (Leiden 1927). The few biographical information about the historian has been collected and discussed in the first part of our work, where we analyze the 6 testimonia about Aristobulus’ life. Then, we discuss the 62 fragments from the work concerning Alexander the Great, and the 2 spurious, which are not Aristobulus’. Of each fragment we present: an Italian translation, an analysis of major textual problems and a commentary, in which the Aristobulus’ text is compared with the most important ancient sources on Alexander. In the final chapter, we develop an analysis of all the fragments, in order to reconstruct the characteristics of the work of the historian.Il lavoro di tesi si propone di analizzare le testimonianze e i frammenti di Aristobulo di Cassandrea, storico di Alessandro Magno, che accompagnò il sovrano macedone nella spedizione in Asia e che scrisse un’opera su questi avvenimenti, andata perduta. Punto di partenza per questo studio è il corpus dei frammenti di Aristobulo edito da Felix Jacoby nella grande raccolta Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker (Leiden 1927). Nella prima parte del lavoro sono state raccolte e discusse, sulla base delle testimonianze, le poche notizie biografiche sullo storico. Si è poi proceduto all’analisi dei 62 frammenti tratti dall’opera su Alessandro Magno e dei 2 spuri, che sono risultati non pertinenti allo storico in esame. Di ogni frammento sono stati affrontati i principali problemi testuali, ove presenti, ed è stata fornita una traduzione in italiano e un commento, nel quale il testo di Aristobulo è stato messo a confronto con quello delle principali fonti antiche su Alessandro. Nelle conclusioni, si presenta un’analisi complessiva dei frammenti di Aristobulo, al fine di ricostruire le caratteristiche peculiari dell’opera dello storico.
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MAINARDI, MARIA. "Dall'Axios all'Hebrus: una periferia dimenticata." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/1854.
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La storia tracia occupa spesso una posizione marginale sia nelle fonti antiche sia negli studi moderni. La presente indagine intende ricostruire le vicende della regione attorno alla metà del IV secolo a.C., dalla morte del sovrano odrisio Kotys (intorno al 360 a.C.) all’insurrezione di Seuthes III (dopo il 326 a.C.). Le fonti letterarie antiche forniscono informazioni lacunose e frammentarie, perché si dedicarono agli avvenimenti traci soltanto quando questi interferirono con la coeva storia ateniese o macedone. Dati aggiuntivi si ricavano dalla documentazione epigrafica, numismatica e archeologica. La presente ricerca ripercorre le complesse dinamiche che portarono alla conquista della Tracia da parte di Filippo II, a costo di numerose e impegnative campagne, e analizza le difficoltà sorte nel mantenere il controllo macedone sulla regione: la pacificazione, tentata da Filippo II negli ultimi anni di regno, non resistette a lungo e l’età di Alessandro fu caratterizzata da una continua tensione tra le spinte autonomistiche delle popolazioni locali e i tentativi di sottomissione condotti dai Macedoni. Una serie di rivolte e il progressivo aumento dell’autonomia locale fecero sì che, alla fine del regno di Alessandro, le tribù tracie riuscissero a tornare "de facto" all’indipendenza originaria.Thracian history is very often left in a secondary place in ancient sources and in modern studies. This research wants to investigate the Thracian history around the half of IV century B.C., from the death of the Odrisian king Kotys (in about 360 B.C.) to the Seuthes III’s revolt (after 326 B.C.). The ancient literary sources are scanty and give fragmentary or incomplete data: they tell about Thrace only when this region is involved in Athenian or Macedonian history. Epigraphic, numismatic and archeological evidence can sometimes be added. This study demonstrates that the conquest of Thrace by Philip II wasn’t easy and it took a lot of time and many expeditions; the Macedonian control of the region was even harder, because the Thracian people always fought for their independence. The peace of the last years of Philip II’s reign couldn’t go on and, in Alexander’s time, many insurrections arose one after the other. Quintus Curtius Rufus tells that Thrace was almost lost in the end of Alexander’s reign: Seuthes III led the most important rising and local autonomy increased too. Thracian tribes returned "de facto" to their original independence.
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MAINARDI, MARIA. "Dall'Axios all'Hebrus: una periferia dimenticata." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/1854.
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La storia tracia occupa spesso una posizione marginale sia nelle fonti antiche sia negli studi moderni. La presente indagine intende ricostruire le vicende della regione attorno alla metà del IV secolo a.C., dalla morte del sovrano odrisio Kotys (intorno al 360 a.C.) all’insurrezione di Seuthes III (dopo il 326 a.C.). Le fonti letterarie antiche forniscono informazioni lacunose e frammentarie, perché si dedicarono agli avvenimenti traci soltanto quando questi interferirono con la coeva storia ateniese o macedone. Dati aggiuntivi si ricavano dalla documentazione epigrafica, numismatica e archeologica. La presente ricerca ripercorre le complesse dinamiche che portarono alla conquista della Tracia da parte di Filippo II, a costo di numerose e impegnative campagne, e analizza le difficoltà sorte nel mantenere il controllo macedone sulla regione: la pacificazione, tentata da Filippo II negli ultimi anni di regno, non resistette a lungo e l’età di Alessandro fu caratterizzata da una continua tensione tra le spinte autonomistiche delle popolazioni locali e i tentativi di sottomissione condotti dai Macedoni. Una serie di rivolte e il progressivo aumento dell’autonomia locale fecero sì che, alla fine del regno di Alessandro, le tribù tracie riuscissero a tornare "de facto" all’indipendenza originaria.Thracian history is very often left in a secondary place in ancient sources and in modern studies. This research wants to investigate the Thracian history around the half of IV century B.C., from the death of the Odrisian king Kotys (in about 360 B.C.) to the Seuthes III’s revolt (after 326 B.C.). The ancient literary sources are scanty and give fragmentary or incomplete data: they tell about Thrace only when this region is involved in Athenian or Macedonian history. Epigraphic, numismatic and archeological evidence can sometimes be added. This study demonstrates that the conquest of Thrace by Philip II wasn’t easy and it took a lot of time and many expeditions; the Macedonian control of the region was even harder, because the Thracian people always fought for their independence. The peace of the last years of Philip II’s reign couldn’t go on and, in Alexander’s time, many insurrections arose one after the other. Quintus Curtius Rufus tells that Thrace was almost lost in the end of Alexander’s reign: Seuthes III led the most important rising and local autonomy increased too. Thracian tribes returned "de facto" to their original independence.
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CAMPANINI, MONICA. "Filippo, Alessandro e i Macedoni nel lessico Suda: dall'immagine classica alla visione bizantina." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Genova, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11567/946303.
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The purpose of this study is to identify, classify and analize all the contributions about Alexander the Great and the Macedonians recovered inside the lexicon Suda, the Xth century Byzantine Greek encyclopedia. The research focalizes also the attention on the sources the lexicon has used, analyzing the connection between the authors used by the encyclopedia and the notices the lexicon has referred, in order to discuss the modifications the lexicon has operated during the transmission of the texts. The discussion on the entries has involved all the aspects of the theme: from the history of the Argeads to the deeds of Alexander in Greece, Asia, India, to the inquiry into the Companions of the king and the women that have shared with him his voyage or that have been part of his family. The results of the inquiry confirm the possibility of a revision of Alexander's image under the byzantine's empire and open up to a new interpretation of his figure in that context.
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Nardelli, Michele. "Les histoires de Timagène d'Alexandrie : nouveaux fragments et nouvelles perspectives de recherche." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Rennes 2, 2024. http://www.theses.fr/2024REN20015.
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Cette thèse porte sur l'étude de Timagène d’Alexandrie, historien du Ier siècle av. J.-C., et sur l’influence de sa production littéraire dans les Histoires Philippiques de Trogue Pompée, la Géographie de Strabon et l’Histoire Naturelle de Pline l’Ancien. À travers une comparaison des textes anciens, latins et grecs, nous avons identifié cinq nouveaux fragments de Timagène, susceptibles d’être ajoutés à la collection de F. Jacoby. Ces fragments portent d’une part sur l’histoire gauloise et alpine, à laquelle Timagène accordait une attention particulière en explorant l’ethnographie et les légendes anciennes.D’autre part, ils se réfèrent à l'anabase d’Alexandre, sujet que l’auteur a connu à travers l'œuvre de Clitarque. Le portrait de Timagène qui ressort de ces fragments est celuid’un érudit alexandrin désireux de transmettre le savoir hellénistique aux cercles culturels romains: c’est à Rome qu’il a entrepris d’enseigner la rhétorique attique, et qu’il a rédigé ses ouvrages historiques, tout en maintenant des liens étroits avec sa ville natale, Alexandrie. Du point de vue historique, Timagène se présente comme un digne héritier de la tradition historiographique grecque, en particulier celle représentée par Hérodote et Théopompe. L’œuvre de Timagène a exercé une influence significative sur les productions littéraires de l’époque augustéenne, en particulier dans le domaine de l'histoire de la Gaule et de la région alpine : en effet, Trogue Pompée a repris les récits de Timagène aux livrescentraux de son œuvre historique (XXXXXII), tandis que Strabon a cité l'historien au livre IV de sa GéographieThis thesis delves into the study of Timagenes of Alexandria, a historian from the Augustan era, and his impact on Pompey Trogue’ Philippic Histories, Strabo's Geography, and Pliny the Elder's Natural History. By comparing ancient texts, latin and greek, we've discovered five new fragments of Timagenes' historical works, that merit inclusion in F. Jacoby’s collection. Thesefragments delve into Gaulish and Alpine history, a subject that Timagenes explored with particular interest through ethnography and ancient legends. Additionally, they reference the anabasis of Alexander, a topic Timagenes was familiar with through the works of Cleitarchus. The portrait of Timagenes that emerges from these fragments is that of an Alexandrian scholareager to impart Hellenistic knowledge to Roman cultural circles. It was in Rome that he undertook to teach Attic rhetoric and wrote his historical works, all while maintaining close ties with his hometown, Alexandria. From a historical perspective, Timagenes emerges as a worthy heir to the greek historiographical tradition, particularly that represented by Herodotus and Theopompus. Timagenes’ work exerted significant influence on the literary productions of the Augustan era, especially in the field of Gaulish and Alpine history: indeed, Pompey Trogue incorporated Timagenes’ accounts into the central books of his historical work (XXXXXII), while Strabo cited the historian in Book IV of his Geography
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Marcinnò, Micol. "Luciano di Samosata e la civiltà ellenistica : imitazione e “ri-creazione." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017STRAC002.
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Comme le titre le suggère, la thèse s’inspire du "Lucien écrivain. Imitation et création de Jacques Bompaire". Dans l’introduction nous reparcourons l’histoire de l’Hellenismus de Droysen et nous surlignons le poids du mélange culturel gréco-oriental dans la vie et dans l’œuvre de Lucien. Le premier chapitre consiste en un corpus commenté de passages lucianesques contenant des éléments hellénistiques évidents. Dans le deuxième chapitre nous analysons plusieurs aspects de la civilisation hellénistique présents dans l’œuvre de Lucien comme la politique, l’art, le mythe, les programmes littéraires. Dans le troisième chapitre nous étudions l’influence de la poésie alexandrine dans l’œuvre de l’A., alors que le quatrième chapitre analyse l’influence que des formes littéraires relevant d’un substrat culturel de sagesse populaire ont eue sur l’A. L’approche textuelle et philologique adoptée permet d’affirmer que Lucien connaissait la civilisation hellénistique et sa littératureAs the title suggests, the thesis takes inspiration from Jacques Bompaire’s Lucien écrivain. Imitation et creation. In the introduction we retrace the history of Droysen’s Hellenismus and we detect the importance of the greco-oriental cultural fusion in Lucian’s life and works. The first chapter consists of a commented corpus of lucianic passages containing evident hellenistic elements. In the second chapter we analyse different aspects of the hellenistic civilisation which are detectable in Lucian’s works such as politics, arts, myth or literary programs. In the third chapter we compare Lucian’s literary production with Alexandrian poetry, while the forth chapter focuses on the literary influence that hellenistic philosophical and historiographical productions had on Lucian’s composition. This research makes it possible to state that the author of Samosata had a deep knowledge of hellenistic civilisation and that hellenistic literature influenced his way of writing
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Toro, Vial Miguel José de. "In exoticis historiis acutissimus. L'ancien Orient dans les chroniques universellesdu XIIe siècle." Thesis, Poitiers, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014POIT5007.
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Au cours de la « Renaissance du XIIe siècle », l'écriture de l'histoire s'épanouit dans l'Europe Latine. L'un des genres dans lequel ce phénomène est le plus visible est celui des chroniques universelles. Les chroniqueurs tentent d'y raconter l'histoire de l'humanité, depuis la Création jusqu'à leur propre époque. Certaines sont particulièrement riches en matière d'histoire ancienne, et fournissent même parfois d'amples informations sur l'Orient ancien. Pourquoi des moines reclus dans leurs monastères s'intéressaient-ils à une histoire aussi éloignée dans le temps et dans l'espace ? Le présent travail s'occupe de deux grandes sections de l'histoire orientale telle qu'elle était conçue au XIIe siècle : les empires qui tournaient autour de la ville de Babylone et les hauts faits militaires d'Alexandre dans les régions d'Asie. En analysant le traitement que leur réservent les chroniques universelles, on observe que les auteurs ont mis ces histoires au service de problématiques propres à leur temps, guidés par des intérêts chaque fois plus proches du monde séculier. En même temps, ils utilisèrent des méthodes propres à l'historiographie, ce qui aboutit à différencier significativement leurs travaux des commentaires bibliques et des romans d'antiquitéDuring the "Renaissance of the 12th century" there was a flourishing of historical writing in Latin Europe. One the genres where this is most noticeable is in the universal chronicles. In them, the chroniclers outline the history of the world from Creation until their own period. Some of them are particularly rich in ancient history and they provide a lot of information of the ancient Orient. Why did monks secluded in their monasteries take interest on a history so far removed from them in time and space? This study considers two great sections of ancient oriental history as it was understood in the twelfth century: the empires surrounding the city of Babylon and the military deeds of Alexander the Great in Asia. Analyzing the treatment that the universal chronicles give them we can appreciate that the authors put these histories at the service of the problems of their own time, being guided increasingly by interests close to the secular world. At the same time they used methods of historiography, which significantly differentiated their works from biblical commentary and the "romances of antiquity"
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Dufková, Gabriela. "Česko-britské a britsko-české kulturní standardy." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-197259.
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Despite a close geographical position to the Czech Republic, there are vast differences between the Czech and British cultures. Commonly after arriving in Britain, many Czech nationals experience a cultural shock and do not understand the behaviour of the British people. The same can be said about Britons arriving in the Czech Republic. This makes it important to understand the cultural differences to help both nationals interact successfully with one another. This Master thesis focuses on cultural standards, a concept made by Alexander Thomas. Therefore, this report aims to define the Czech-British and British-Czech cultural standards, whilst comparing them with the theory and then to apply them in a cultural-historic framework. This report will hypothesise that the defined cultural standards do not differ from the standards analysed within the book by Karel Čapek. Other hypothesis of this thesis is: Many Britons see Czech people as over-caring and anxious. In conclusion to this report, the author will provide recommendations to both Czech nationals travelling to Great Britain and also the same for British descendants arriving within the Czech Republic.
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Mc, Inerney Timothy. "'The Better Sort' : ideas of Race and of Nobility in Eighteenth-Century Great Britain and Ireland." Thesis, Paris 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA030124/document.
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Durant des siècles, la noblesse britannique a défendu une hiérarchie fondée sur la lignée et la généalogie, qui s’inscrivait dans la tradition occidentale de l'ordre universel. En 1735, cependant, l'Homo sapiens de Linné marque le début d'un nouveau discours sur les hiérarchies humaines, désormais fondées sur la « variété » physique. Cette étude veut cerner l’influence de la tradition noble sur les conceptions de la race, en Grande-Bretagne et en Irlande, au cours du long XVIIIe siècle. Nous examinons un ensemble de textes de nature diverse, dans l'espoir de mettre en lumière la continuité des hiérarchies généalogiques à travers plusieurs disciplines et sur plusieurs centaines d'années. La première partie retrace l'histoire du privilège héréditaire comme « identité généalogique » à partir d’œuvres comme A British Compendium, or, Rudiments of Honour (1725-7) de Francis Nichols et l’Essay on Man (1734) d’Alexander Pope. La seconde partie réexamine ces mêmes traditions sous l'angle de la théorie de la race au XVIIIe siècle. Elle s'intéresse aux idées de la race et du breeding dans le roman anonyme, The Lady’s Drawing Room (1744), et à la rhétorique de la variété humaine dans plusieurs ouvrages d’histoire naturelle, dont A History of the Earth and Animated Nature (1774) d’Oliver Goldsmith. La troisième partie étudie l'influence des Lumières et de la Révolution française sur l’idée de « race noble » telle qu'elle apparaît dans les Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) d'Edmund Burke, ainsi que le rôle de la « noblesse naturelle » dans des œuvres abolitionnistes, notamment Slavery, or, the Times (1792) d’Anna Maria Mackenzie. Ainsi, cette étude entend démontrer que la tradition de la « race » noble a été, et demeure, une composante fondamentale dans la construction d'un concept de « race » humaine, qui fait de la pureté du sang, de la supériorité des mœurs et de l’anatomie des principes définitoires de la hiérarchie humaineFor centuries, British nobility promoted an elite hierarchy based on genealogical precedence within the greater Western tradition of universal order. In 1735, however, Carolus Linnaeus’s Homo sapiens signalled the beginning of an entirely new discourse of human hierarchy based on physical ‘variety’. This study aims to identify how noble tradition influenced conceptions of race in Great Britain and Ireland during the long eighteenth century. Tracing the persistence of a ‘pureblood’ model of human superiority in the West, it traverses a vast range of historical material in order to highlight the continuity of genealogical hierarchies across multiple disciplines and over hundreds of years. The first section reviews the history of hereditary privilege as a backdrop to noble culture in eighteenth-century Britain: examining works such as Francis Nichols’s British Compendium, or, Rudiments of Honour (1727-7) and Alexander Pope’s Essay on Man (1734), it considers how nobility as a genealogical identity was accommodated in the ‘Great Chain of Being’ understanding of human hierarchy. The second section considers these same traditions in terms of the eighteenth-century ‘race’ construct: it considers the notion of ‘breeding’ in works such as the anonymous The Lady’s Drawing Room (1744) and the rhetoric of human variety in naturalist texts such as Oliver Goldsmith’s History of the Earth and Animated Nature (1774). The third and last section considers the influences of Enlightenment and the French Revolution on ideas of noble race in Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), and the role of ‘natural’ nobility in abolitionist texts such as Anna Maria Mackenzie’s Slavery; or, the Times (1792). In short, this study demonstrates that the tradition of noble ‘race’ was, and is, a fundamental component of the human ‘race’ construct, asserting blood purity, anatomical superiority, and inimitable excellence as defining principles of human hierarchy
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Belkheir, Nadia. "Connaissances et perceptions de l'Arabie et des Arabes chez les Anciens : (VIIIe siècle av. J.-C. - IVe siècle apr. J.-C.)." Thesis, Paris 10, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PA100179.
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La thèse présente un corpus de sources gréco-latines relatif à l’Arabie et aux Arabes suivi d’un commentaire. Plus précisément, le corpus s’ouvre à l’époque archaïque avec quelques vers homériques et se termine au IVe siècle apr. J.-C. avec des extraits de l’Histoire romaine d’Ammien Marcellin. Les termes « Arabie » et « Arabe » de la tradition textuelle ancienne n’assument pas les mêmes acceptions qu’aujourd’hui. Au contraire, lorsque nous interrogeons le corpus sur ce qu’est l’Arabie en tant qu’espace géographique et sur l’identité des Arabes, nous aboutissons au constat que nous ne pouvons proposer une définition unique tant les auteurs anciens varient dans leur perception. La question de l’ethnicité est tout aussi complexe. Les sources anciennes désignent comme arabes des tribus qui ne se présentent pas elles-mêmes comme arabes dans leurs inscriptions : les Nabatéens sont désignés comme Arabes Nabatéens dans les textes tandis que cette auto-désignation est inconnue dans les inscriptions nabatéennesThe dissertation provides a corpus of Graeco-Latin literary sources concerning Arabia and Arabs followed by a commentary. More precisely, the corpus opens in the Archaic period with some Homeric verses and ends in the 4th century C.E. with excerpts from the Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus. The words “Arabia” and “Arab” in the ancient textual tradition do not have the same meaning as they do today. On the contrary, after questioning the corpus on what is Arabia as space and on the identity of Arabs, we come to the conclusion that we cannot propose a unique definition because ancient authors vary in their perception. Likewise, the issue of ethnicity is equally complex. Ancient sources refer to tribes as “Arabs” who do not present themselves as Arabs in their inscriptions : Nabateans are referred to as Nabateans Arabs in the texts while this self-definition is unknown in Nabatean inscriptions
تقدم الأطروحة مجموعة من المصادر اليونانية-اللاتينية المتعلقة بالجزيرة العربية والعرب، مشفوعةبتعليق. على نحو أكثر دقة، تفتتح المجموعة في العصر القديم مع بعض أبيات هوميروس، وتنتهي في القرنالرابع الميلادي بمقتطفات من التاريخ الروماني لأميان مارسلين.لا يحمل مصطلحا "الجزيرة العربية والعرب" في التقاليد النصية القديمة معناهما نفسه اليوم، بل علىالعكس فعندما نسائل هذه المصادر عن ماهية الجزيرة العربية بوصفها مساحة جغرافية وعن هويةالعرب، نتوصل إلى استنتاج مفاده أننا لا نستطيع اقتراح تعريف واحد؛ لاختلاف المؤلفين القدامى فيتصوراتهم.المسالة الإثنية معقدة بالقدر نفسه، فالمصادر القديمة تصف بالعروبة القبائل التي لا تقدم هي نفسها فينقوشها على أنها عربية، فمثلا يشار في هذه النصوص إلى الأنباط بأنهم عرب مع أن هذا التصنيف الذاتيغير معروف في النقوش النبطية
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Erlinger, Christopher Michael. "How the Eunuch Works:Eunuchs as a Narrative Device in Greek and Roman Literature." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1465737368.
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Benenati, Stefano. "Le roman d'Alexandre en prose du XIIIe siècle. Histoire de la tradition et édition critique." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Université de Lille (2022-....), 2024. https://pepite-depot.univ-lille.fr/ToutIDP/EDSHS/2024/2024ULILH008.pdf.
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Le Roman d'Alexandre en prose est une adaptation de l'œuvre latine Historia de preliis Alexandri Magni I2 (Orosius-Rezension) en ancien français et a été composé par un auteur inconnu dans les trois dernières décennies du XIIIe siècle (ca.1260-1299). Ce projet propose une étude philologique-littéraire du roman et une édition critique “néolachmannienne” de son texte, pourvue d'un apparat des variantes. La tradition manuscrite (vingt témoins dont deux perdus), imprimée (onze éditions entre 1506 et 1631) et indirecte (sept cas de réemploi de l'œuvre de la deuxième moitié du XIII siècle à la fin du XVI siècle) a fait l'objet d'une description détaillée. L'analyse des variantes textuelles des dix-huit témoins a abouti à une hypothèse sur la transmission de l'œuvre, qui a été représentée dans un stemma codicum. De plus, la mise à jour du recensement des manuscrits de l'Historia de preliis I2 et leur analyse a permis d'identifier la branche de la tradition de l'œuvre latine dont le modèle de la traduction française a dérivé. Des critères d'édition univoques et contrôlables ont été ainsi établis sur la base de ces études. Le manuscrit d'où la surface graphique du texte critique a été puisée a fait l'objet d'une analyse codicologique et linguistique ponctuelle. En outre, l'édition a été complémentée d'un commentaire analytique et d'un glossaire. Sur le plan littéraire, une étude des passages où le traducteur s'est éloigné du texte-source a éclairé les modalités de compilation des sources secondaires (telles que le Roman d'Alexandre en vers, l'Histoire Ancienne jusqu'à César, le Trésor) et la spécificité de certaines de ses interventions originellesThe Roman d'Alexandre en prose is an Old French adaptation of the Latin chronicle known as Historia de preliis Alexandri Magni I2 (Orosius-Rezension). It has been redacted by an unknown author at a certain point during the last three decades of the XIIIth century (around 1260-1299). This project consists of a philological and literary study of the romance and of its “neolachmannian” critical edition. The Old French Prose Alexander's tradition, including the eighteen manuscripts, the eleven printed editions and its indirect tradition, has been described in detail. The scrutiny of its witnesses' textual variants resulted in a hypothesis on its genealogical transmission, which has been represented in a stemma codicum. Moreover, through an analysis of its Latin original's manuscript tradition, we identified the exact branch the model of the French adaptation derived from. Based on those in-depth studies, verifiable and univocal editing principles have been established. The manuscript used for the graphic surface of the critical edition has been the purpose of a specific codicological and linguistic description. Besides, the main interpretative and philological issues have been extensively discussed in a point-by-point comment. The edition has been equipped with a critical apparatus and a glossary, as well. On the literary ground, the investigation of the passages unconnected to the Latin original revealed the specific way in which the author compiled secondary sources such as the verses Roman d'Alexandre, the Histoire Ancienne jusqu'à César, the Tresor, and original contributions
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Lagarde, Laetitia. "Louis XIV au miroir d'Alexandre le Grand." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Sorbonne université, 2025. http://www.theses.fr/2025SORUL004.
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Depuis la fin de la Renaissance, l'écriture de l'Histoire en Europe passe par une figure obligée, celle de la comparaison ou, pour le dire autrement, celle de l'imaginaire des temps parallèles. Au fil des ans, les comparaisons entre Anciens et Modernes se multiplient. Ainsi, les partisans de Louis XIV s'emploient-ils à faire en particulier d'Alexandre le Grand un modèle pour le monarque. Le Macédonien est, en effet, un personnage fort à la mode en France à partir des années 1650, en raison des traductions de Quinte-Curce par Vaugelas. De plus, ses multiples facettes, puisées dans les Vies antiques de Quinte-Curce et de Plutarque, mais aussi dans les très nombreuses réécritures de la geste d'Alexandre, constituent un matériau suffisamment malléable pour s'adapter à l'époque moderne et fournir un matériau à l'éloge du monarque. Nous voulons montrer comme la propagande royale, à partir de la figure du Macédonien, croise la vérité historique et l'imaginaire idéalisé, afin de diffuser une image royale contrôlée, d'affermir les fondements de la monarchie absolue et de justifier les entreprises guerrières du souverain. Dans la mesure où le parallèle entre le roi de France et le souverain d'Alexandre remonte au moins au règne de Louis XIII (1610-1643), si ce n'est à celui d'Henri IV (1589-1610) (même si Alexandre n'est pas encore la figure antique privilégiée), nous avons élargi le champ de notre corpus du début du règne d'Henri IV jusqu'à la fin des années 1670, moment où Louis XIV semble ne plus vouloir se servir de son faire-valoir. Nous explorons ainsi le lien entre l'Histoire et la fiction à travers des ouvrages variés : traductions ou adaptations d'historiens antiques, panégyriques et pièces de circonstance, pièces de théâtre, ballets, romans, poésie, traités de morale et de politique, sans oublier les sources iconographiques (peinture, sculpture, glyptique …). Nous avons souhaité articuler les notions de modèle et de parallèle en suivant les différents moments du règne, sur fond de querelle des Anciens et des Modernes et d'avènement d'une nouvelle conception de l'Histoire. Si Louis XIV est encore, à l'aube de son pouvoir personnel, dans une logique d'imitation des Anciens et trouve en Alexandre un modèle à imiter, la décennie 1660 a pu présenter une relative supériorité du souverain français. L'élève princier moderne est devenu l'émule d'Alexandre jusqu'à pouvoir le dépasser et se constituer en modèle à son tour. Le Moderne finit par dépasser l'Ancien, selon un renversement du parallèle et de sa logique d'exemplaritéSince the end of the Renaissance, the writing of history in Europe had involved an obligatory figure, that of comparison or, in other words, that of the imaginary world of parallel times. Over the years, comparisons between “the right brain” and “the left brain” have multiplied. Louis XIV's supporters, in particular, set out to make Alexander the Great a model for the monarch. Indeed, the Macedonian was a very fashionable figure in France from the 1650s onwards, thanks to Vaugelas'translations of Quinte-Curce. What's more, his many different facets, taken from the Lives of the Ancients by Quinte-Curce and Plutarch, but also from the many rewritings of Alexander's deeds, are sufficiently malleable to adapt to the modern era and provide material for the praise of the monarch. Our aim is to show how royal propaganda, based on the figure of the Macedonian, combines historical truth and idealized fantasy, in order to disseminate a controlled royal image, strengthen the foundations of absolute monarchy and justify the sovereign's warlike ventures. Insofar as the parallel between the French king and the Alexandrian sovereign went back at least to the reign of Louis XIII (1610-1643), if not to that of Henri IV (1589-1610) (even if Alexander was not yet the preferred antique figure), we have extended the scope of our corpus from the beginning of Henri IV's reign to the end of the 1670s, when Louis XIV seemed no longer to want to use his stooge. We will explore the link between history and fiction through a variety of works: translations or adaptations of ancient historians, panegyrics and occasional plays, plays, ballets, novels, poetry, moral and political treatises, not forgetting iconographic sources (painting, sculpture, glyptics, etc.). We wanted to articulate the notions of model and parallel by following the different moments of the reign, against the backdrop of the quarrel between “the right brain” and “the left brain” and the advent of a new conception of History. While Louis XIV, at the dawn of his personal power, was still imitating the Ancients, and found in Alexander a model to emulate, the 1660s saw a relative superiority of the French sovereign. The modern princely pupil became Alexander's imitator, until he was able to surpass him and become a model in his own right. The modern ended up surpassing the ancient, in a reversal of the parallel and its logic of exemplarity
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Strasdin, Kate. "Fashioning Alexandra : a sartorial biography of Queen Alexandra 1844-1925." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2014. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/366831/.
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In the second half of the 19th century, Alexandra Princess of Wales and later Queen Consort to her husband Edward VII became one of the most recognizable women of the period. Her image was circulated around the globe by the million and her every movement recorded daily in The Times. Despite her contemporary celebrity, she has become a lesser-known figure in modern history. With little in the way of political influence, Alexandra recognized that her ppearance in public was powerful. She used clothes throughout her life to both display and disguise herself. despite the centrality of dress in her life, no other study has ever examined her remaining items of clothing until now. This thesis considers in detail those garments that have survived from Queen Alexandra’s wardrobe, most of which, owing to their geographic spread, have never been studied before. This object-led approach allows an analysis of a life, which has been considered before in more traditional biographies. However, the close examination of the garments and of Alexandra’s approach to her clothing reveals aspects never before considered. It has also prompted the consideration of previously under researched areas such as royal laundry, the role of the dresser and the logistics of 19th century royal travel. As a multi-disciplinary project it has shed new light onto Alexandra’s life and dispelled certain apocryphal stories which only the material culture itself could reveal.
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Nicoud, Guillaume. "Une galerie issue des Lumières : la galerie impériale de l’Ermitage et la France de Catherine II à Alexandre Ier (1762-1825)." Thesis, Paris, EPHE, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016EPHE4015.
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Cette présente étude propose d’éclairer l’apport de la France durant la première étape du développement de la galerie impériale de peintures, qui donna naissance au Musée de l’Ermitage, à Saint-Pétersbourg. C’est durant cette période que se constitue et se sanctuarise, comme nous tenterons de le démontrer, la galerie des souverains russes au sein d’un nouveau complexe palatial adossé au palais d’Hiver – siège du pouvoir –, en un établissement qui prend rapidement le nom – français – d’« ermitage ». Ce travail se divise en trois parties. Après une présentation de l’apport de la France sous Catherine II (1729-1762-1796), à travers l’étude de la construction des bâtiments de l’Ermitage d’une part, et la formation des collections d’autre part, nous traiterons ensuite des règnes de Paul Ier (1754-1796-1801) et surtout de son fils Alexandre Ier (1777-1801-1825), afin de déterminer comment ils ont géré cet héritage, en soulignant ce que ces souverains ont puisé en idées et en œuvres en France. Il reste enfin à établir, dans un troisième temps et au terme de cette première étape de l’évolution de l’Ermitage, comment la France a stimulé la mutation de la galerie impériale en un établissement tendant de plus en plus vers le muséeThis study proposes to clarify the contribution of France during the first stage of development of the Imperial Gallery of Paintings, which gave birth to the State Hermitage Museum, in Saint Petersburg. It is during this period that the gallery of the Russian sovereigns, within a new palatial complex, is gathered, organized and housed immediately just next to the Winter Palace – the seat of power – in an establishment which is quickly given the – French – name, “Hermitage.”This study is divided in three parts. First, the study will present the contribution of France under Catherine the Great (1729-1762-1796), by examining both the construction of the Hermitage’s building and the formation of the collections. Secondly, we will delve into the reigns of Paul I (1754-1796-1801) and especially his son, Alexander the Great (1777-1801-1825), in order to determine how they managed this inheritance, by highlighting how these sovereigns used the ideas and artworks from France. Finally, the study will establish, how, at the end of this first stage of the evolution of the Hermitage, France stimulated the transformation of the Imperial Gallery into an institution whose trajectory arced towards becoming a museum
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Moore, Lindsay Emory. "The Laureates’ Lens: Exposing the Development of Literary History and Literary Criticism From Beneath the Dunce Cap." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc822784/.
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In this project, I examine the impact of early literary criticism, early literary history, and the history of knowledge on the perception of the laureateship as it was formulated at specific moments in the eighteenth century. Instead of accepting the assessments of Pope and Johnson, I reconstruct the contemporary impact of laureate writings and the writing that fashioned the view of the laureates we have inherited. I use an array of primary documents (from letters and journal entries to poems and non-fiction prose) to analyze the way the laureateship as a literary identity was constructed in several key moments: the debate over hack literature in the pamphlet wars surrounding Elkanah Settle’s The Empress of Morocco (1673), the defense of Colley Cibber and his subsequent attempt to use his expertise of theater in An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber (1740), the consolidation of hack literature and state-sponsored poetry with the crowning of Colley Cibber as the King of the Dunces in Pope’s The Dunciad in Four Books (1742), the fashioning of Thomas Gray and William Mason as laureate rejecters in Mason’s Memoirs of the Life and Writings of William Whitehead (1788), Southey’s progressive work to abolish laureate task writing in his laureate odes 1813-1821, and, finally, in Wordsworth’s refusal to produce any laureate task writing during his tenure, 1843-1850. In each case, I explain how the construction of this office was central to the consolidation of literary history and to forging authorial identity in the same period. This differs from the conventional treatment of the laureates because I expose the history of the versions of literary history that have to date structured how scholars understand the laureate, and by doing so, reveal how the laureateship was used to create, legitimate and disseminate the model of literary history we still use today.
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Hill, Joan. "Ancient and modern treatment of Alexander the Great." Diss., 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2487.
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This dissertation examines the different interpretations of the secondary sources for Alexander the
Great by three modern historians, Nicholas Hammond, Peter Green and Mary Renault. The Introduction looks briefly at the lost primary Alexander-histories, the extant works of Diodorus Siculus, Quintus Curtius, Plutarch and Arrian and includes an abbreviated curriculum
vltae of each modern author.
Chapter X concerns modern interpretations of the controversial circumstances surrounding the accession of Alexander and the assassination of Philip. Chapter II covers the elimination of possible rivals, Attalus, Alexander Lyncestes and Amyntas son of Perdiccas, two major
conspiracies - the Philotas Affair and the death of Parmenio, the conspiracy of the Royal Pages
and death of Callisthenes - and the killing of Cleitus the Black. Chapter III deals with modern
explanations of the death of Alexander. The Conclusion highlights significant theories and trends presented by the modern historians, which influence their interpretations of the ancient sources.History
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Lee, Kwei-Ron, and 李葵蓉. "The " Great Reforms " in the Reign of Alexander II." Thesis, 1997. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/23399546392978413947.
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Title of Thesis : The " Great Reforms " in the Total pages : 143 Reign of Alexander II Key words : Russia; Alexander II; the Great Reforms; the Emancipation;judicial reform; zemstvo; military reform Name of Institute : Graduate Institute of Russian and Slavic Studies, Tam-Kang University Graduate Date : June, 1996 Degree conferred : MasterName of student : Lee Kwei-Ron Advisor : Prof. Hung Lien-De 〈 李 葵 蓉 〉 〈 洪 鎌 德 教授〉Abstract : The "Great Reforms" carried out by Alexander II( 1818-1881 ) in the 19thcentury Russia, originating from the liberation of the serfs,later tranformingthe local administration, the judicial system and the military system in 1874,fell the unprecedented repercussions in every department of Russian society. In important respects the "Great Reforms" marked Russia''s first steps onthe road to a "de-feudalized ",bourgeois- capitalist society and the watershedbetween the old and the nineteenth- centery Russia. The purpose of the study is first to investigate the cause , nature andcontents of the "Great Reforms" and the impact of these reforms on the contem-poraneous Russian society.Second,to discuss the variant views in the differentperiods and historical backgrounds for running a commentary on the value andthe significance of the " Great reforms".
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Corrigan, Damaris Moore Shelmerdine Cynthia W. Green Peter M. "Riders on high an interdisciplinary study of the Macedonian cavalry of Alexander the Great /." 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3143676.
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Fisher, ALLISON. "Artistic Interest in the Life of Alexander the Great During the Italian Renaissance." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/7879.
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Alexander the Great (356-323 BCE) was the king of Macedon and one of the greatest military commanders in the ancient world. Before his death at the age of thirty-three, Alexander had conquered Greece, the Persian Empire, and northern India. Alexander provided a model of a secular ruler for leaders in medieval and Renaissance Europe. Furthermore, with the revival of antique culture during the Renaissance, the life of Alexander became a favourite classical subject in art and literature. My thesis seeks to examine the artistic interest in the life of Alexander during the Italian Renaissance. During the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, artists portrayed episodes from the life of Alexander for elite patrons, who commissioned monumental frescoes and panel-paintings, along with pieces of maiolica pottery, tapestry and sculpture for use in the rituals of court life. While Alexander represented a model of secular authority for the patron, he was also intrinsically linked with art. Alexander's court artists, particularly Apelles, had a legacy that was eagerly emulated by modern artists.
This thesis begins by tracing the long literary tradition of Alexander. Accounts by ancient authors, medieval romances, and new humanist texts all informed the production of images of the ancient king. I will explore the earliest representations of Alexander influenced by the humanist themes of uomini famosi and Petrarch's I Trionfi, followed by the reception and the appeal of portraits of Alexander created by Andrea del Verrocchio, Valerio Belli, and Giulio Romano. I will argue that, based on evidence in the form of drawings, Raphael had life-long artistic interest in Alexander, and many of his designs were adapted by other artists, including a fresco by Sodoma at the Villa Farnesina, and finely decorated maiolica pottery. Finally, I will consider the monumental cycles of frescoes executed by artists for patrons, who had a profound personal connection to the ancient monarch. While the artistic interest in the life of Alexander seems to derive from the fact that he was an all'antica subject, as I will demonstrate throughout this thesis, this interest took many forms for patrons, artists, and viewers.Thesis (Ph.D, Art History) -- Queen's University, 2013-04-17 11:47:31.549
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Cornwall, Owen Timothy. "Alexander and the Persian Cosmopolis, 1000-1500." Thesis, 2015. https://doi.org/10.7916/D82V2FVM.
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The Alexander romance—a heroic narrative loosely based on the life of Alexander the Great—was one of the most widely copied texts throughout premodern Europe and the Islamic world. In premodern Persian histories and literature, Alexander was an archetypal Persian king, who conquered the world and united "East and West." Four Persian Alexander epics were composed between 1000 and 1500 CE by some of the most famous authors of the Persian literary tradition: Firdausi (d.1020), Nizami (d.1209), Amir Khusrau (d.1325) and Jami (d.1492). Despite the importance of these epics to premodern Persian literature, this dissertation is the first monograph in any European language to compare all four canonical versions of the Persian Alexander epic in depth. My analysis focuses on the ways in which Persian Alexander epic tradition provides insight into the development of the Persian cosmopolis, a trans-regional cultural phenomenon extending from the Balkans to the Bay of Bengal.
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"Alexander The Great: Created In Whose Image? A Study In The Byzantinization Of Μεγας Î‘Î»ÎµÏ‡Î±Î½Î´Ï Î¿Ï‚ In Venice Hellenic Institute Codex Graecus 5." Tulane University, 2015.
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Corrigan, Damaris Moore 1961. "Riders on high : an interdisciplinary study of the Macedonian cavalry of Alexander the Great." 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/12764.
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Havlík, Jakub. "Vývoj osídlení Baktrie v období helénismu." Master's thesis, 2018. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-388178.
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Jakub Havlík, Vývoj osídlení Baktrie v období helénismu Abstract: Primarily based on the archaeological evidence, the aim of the proposed thesis is to present an image of a settlement situation in the region of Bactria (Central Asia) during the Hellenistic period. The main subject of the study is a comparison of settlement patterns of the Achaemenid and Hellenistic periods, as well as a characterization of settlement transformation, which occurred after the conquest of Alexander the Great, after almost two hundred years of Greek rule in the area. In this thesis, the individual settlement-sites are classified according to their size and their hypothetical function in the whole settlement structure. Besides the morphology of the site, their position was examined, as well as a distribution and mutual relations within the context of the natural landscape. Attention was paid to larger sites (cities, fortified settlements), and minor ones (rural settlements) and their agglomerations, as well as specific settlement forms, such as fortresses or sanctuaries. All the studied settlements are presented in form of catalogue and maps. Data analysis shows that a huge decrease in settlement structure and a break in development can be observed in relatively large part of Bactria, at the end of Achaemenid period, what...
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Ζιώγκα, Δώρα. "Σχεδίαση εκπαιδευτικού λογισμικού για την πορεία του Μεγάλου Αλεξάνδρου με χρήση του Google Earth." Thesis, 2010. http://nemertes.lis.upatras.gr/jspui/handle/10889/4238.
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Η παρούσα εργασία αφορά τη διαδικασία ανάπτυξης, σχεδίασης και αξιολόγησης του εκπαιδευτικού λογισμικού «Μέγας Αλέξανδρος: η εκστρατεία του». Η εφαρμογή αναπτύχθηκε πάνω στο «Google Earth» χρησιμοποιώντας τα εργαλεία του και κυρίως τα αρχεία kmz. Παρουσιάζει με αλληλεπιδραστικό και δυναμικό τρόπο ιστορικές και γεωγραφικές πληροφορίες, δραστηριότητες και βίντεο για τους μαθητές. Το λογισμικό κατά τη διαδικασία αξιολόγησής του παρουσιάστηκε σε μαθητές, γυμνασίου και αξιολογήθηκε από αυτούς.This work involves the development process, design and evaluation of educational software «Alexander the Great: his campaign». The application was developed on the «Google Earth» using the tools and particular files kmz. Presents in a interactive and dynamic way historical and geographical information, activities and videos for students. The software during the evaluation process was presented to students high school and was evaluated by the above.
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Hřebcová, Zuzana. "České překlady Fitzgeraldova Velkého Gatsbyho (L. Dorůžka 1960/2011; Alexandr Tomský a Rudolf Červenka 2011; Martin Pokorný 2013)." Master's thesis, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-342943.
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The thesis focuses on modern translations of the classic American novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald within the Czech cultural setting. Initially, in accordance with Gideon Toury's (2012) descriptive model, two Czech translations will be compared in light of their functionality within the target literary canon, their dominating stylistic features will be determined and they will be assessed in terms of their acceptability or adequacy. Subsequently selected excerpts will be compared with the source text to reveal how each of the translations treats Fitzgerald's text, and in relation to these findings their shifts between acceptability and adequacy will be specified. The central goal of the thesis is to evaluate the transfer of Fitzgerald's very specific writing style, with special focus on its poetic character, lyricism and imagery. Therefore individual translation strategies will be identified and the invariant core of both of the translations will be determined. For an even more detailed explanation of the translation strategies the thesis employs the preceding translation by Lubomír Dorůžka (1960) which helps clarify the relationship between the studied translations. In conclusion all of the findings are summarized and characteristics of each of the Czech versions of Fitzgerald's The...