Download or read book Echoes of Alexander the Great written by Marian Wenzel and published by Art Media Resources. This book was released on 2000 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 63 beautiful stucco and terra-cotta heads of the Silk Route Portrait Collection, summarizing the best aspects of Gandharan vision of the Buddha's own tale. Heads in the present collection, dating mainly from the 3rd to the 5th centuries, were at their origin part of the ornamentation of Buddhist stupas - memorials to Buddha, celebrating his tale, and set up along the historic Silk Route, linking Central Asia with China in the east, and Byzantium in the west. With a foreword by the Dalai Lama.
Download or read book The Portraits of Alexander the Great written by Margarete Bieber and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Faces of Power written by Andrew Stewart and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During his reign and following his death, the physiognomy of Alexander the Great was one of the most famous in history, adorning numerous works of art. This study demonstrates how the various portraits transmit not so much a likeness of Alexander as a set of cliches that symbolized the ruler
Download or read book The Legend of Alexander the Great on Greek and Roman Coins written by Karsten Dahmen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-01-24 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Life and the Vision portrait of Alexander the Great written by John Fournier and published by . This book was released on 1991* with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alexander the Great written by Alan Fildes and published by Duncan Baird Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fildes presents, in a year-by-year chronicle, an intimate and fascinating portrait of the man who created the greatest empire the world had ever seen and acquired a semi-mythic status that persists today. Generously illustrated with ancient art from museums around the world, this is an engrossing, accessible biography of a legendary man. 120 illustrations.
Download or read book A New Portrait of Alexander The Great written by Phyllis Williams Lehmann and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Imitatio Alexandri in Hellenistic Art written by Anna A. Trofimova and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alexander the Great With Illustrations and a Portrait written by Sir James George Scott and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Portrait Heads of Alexander the Great written by Susan Reinhart and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alexander the Great written by Waldemar Heckel and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-19 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander the Great: A New History combines traditional scholarship with contemporary research to offer an innovative treatment of one of history's most famous figures. Written by leading experts in the field Looks at a wide range of diverse topics including Alexander's religious views, his entourage during his campaign East, his sexuality, the influence of his legacy, and his representations in art and cinema Discusses Alexander's influence, from his impact on his contemporaries to his portrayals in recent Hollywood films A highly informed and enjoyable resource for students and interested general readers
Download or read book The Nature of Alexander written by Mary Renault and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “intriguing and invaluable” biography of Alexander the Great by the novelist whose fiction redefined Ancient Greece (The New York Times). Acclaimed writer Mary Renault is widely known for her provocative historical novels of Alexander the Great and his lovers. But she also authored this nonfiction classic, a fresh, illuminating look at a man whose legend has remained larger than life for more than two thousand years. From his dysfunctional family dynamics to his molding under Aristotle, from his shocking rise to power at age twenty to the staggering violence of his military campaigns, Renault is clear-eyed about Alexander’s accomplishments and his flaws. Infectious in its enthusiasm, this is a penetrating study of an unrivaled conqueror, enduring icon, and fascinating man. Hailed as both “a splendid achievement in nonfiction” (The Plain Dealer) and “the perfect companion to her Alexander novels” (The Wall Street Journal), Renault’s engrossing and accessible biography stands alone in the pantheon of Alexander the Great literature. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Mary Renault including rare images of the author.
Download or read book Alexander the Great written by Alan Fildes and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2002 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a year-by-year chronicle, this book presents an intimate and fascinating portrait of the man who created the greatest empire the world had ever seen. 120 color illustrations.
Download or read book Historiographical Alexander written by Borja Antela-Bernádez and published by Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra / Coimbra University Press. This book was released on with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a famous statement, Ulrich Wilcken argues that each historian has his own Alexander. A critical examination of the traditions in Historiographic Alexander allows to reconsider both our ideas of alterity and success, and how great can be a human being, or to what extent what was great in the past still has to be accepted as such in our present days. To sum up, to revisit Alexander from the eyes of the historians in the Contemporary Age offers a genuine opportunity to rethink History as such, and to evaluate how can we imagine new ways to explain the past in order to build a rich appreciation of the present in order to imagine brand new futures. The aim of the following pages is to review Alexander’s portraits and concerns in the works and scopes of the more recent historical traditions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Download or read book Brill s Companion to the Reception of Alexander the Great written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 879 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Alexander the Great has something for everyone who is interested in the life and afterlife of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great.
Download or read book Royal Portraits in Sculpture and Coins written by Blanche R. Brown and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book begins with a specific problem: the date, style, and iconography of a marble portrait head identified as Pyrrhos, King of Epeiros. Largely by collating with portraits on coins, the head is defined stylistically - dated c.305/304 - c.280 B.C., when the Successors ruled as kings - and confirmed as Pyrrhos. Further study of both coins and sculptures yields a fuller, more complex account of the portraiture of that period, in historic context as well as style, and also of the periods directly before c.305/304 B.C. and after c.280 B.C. In the course of making comparisons, later Hellenistic portraits are discussed as well.
Download or read book Alexander the Great written by Paul Cartledge and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2004-08-03 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “literate rendering of Alexander’s life” offers a nuanced portrait of the great conqueror in both governance and war (Kirkus). Alexander's legacy has had a major impact on military tacticians, scholars, statesmen, adventurers, authors, and filmmakers. In this trenchant and evocative biography, Paul Cartledge sheds light on Alexander's remarkable political and military accomplishments, cutting through the myths to show why he was such a great leader. Cartledge explores our endless fascination with Alexander and gives us insight into his charismatic leadership, his capacity for brutality, and his sophisticated grasp of international politics. Alexander the Great is an engaging portrait of a fascinating man, and a welcome balance to the myths, legends, and often skewed history that have obscured the real Alexander.
