Taking as a key turning point the self-fashioning of the first Roman emperor Augustus,
author Jennifer Finn revisits the idea of “universal history” in Polybius, Justin, and Diodorus …

The present paper examines written sources pertinent to Alexander the Great's expedition in
Bactria and Sogdiana. It focuses on the impact of the military campaigns on the local …

This article examines Demetrius Poliorcetes' imitation of Alexander the Great. The
assumption that imitatio Alexandri was his prevailing attitude towards Alexander's memory …

This book explains the military and economic developments that engulfed the ancient
Mediterranean in the late Classical and early Hellenistic periods from the perspective of …

From premodern societies onward, humans have constructed and produced images of ideal
masculinity to define the roles available for boys to grow into, and images for adult men to …

Abstract· Identity and Astrology in Roman Glyptics· The presence of a zodiacal sign on an
intaglio can represent the birth sign of its wearer, especially when accompanied by an …

Among all Plutarch's Lives of men that lived after IV BC, the biography of Demetrius
Poliorcetes contains the most references to Alexander the Great. It is noteworthy that …

This volume explores the images of Alexander the Great from the fifteenth and sixteenth
centuries, how they came about, and why they were so popular. In contrast to the numerous …

La ricezione dell’ultimo Alessandro Page 1 La ricezione dell’ultimo Alessandro Mirabilia e
violenza al di qua e al di là dell’Indo A cura di Francesca Piccioni, Elisabetta Poddighe e …

This paper examines some passages in the De Clementia where Seneca seems to aim at
being identified with both Callisthenes and Pindar as an act of homage towards Nero. The …