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"Within a single decade (334-325 BC) Alexander III of Macedon conquered much of the known world of his time, creating an empire that stretched from the Balkans to India and southern Egypt. His clear intention of establishing permanent dominion over this huge and culturally diverse territory raises questions about whether and how he tried to legitimate his position and about the reactions of various groups subject to his rule: Macedonians, Greeks, the army, indigenous elites. Starting from Max Weber's "Herrschaftssoziologie", the 15 authors discuss Alexander's strategies of legitimation as well as the motives his subjects may have had for offering him obedience. The analysis of monarchical representation and political communication in these case-studies on symbolic performances and economic, administrative and religious measures sheds new light on the reasons for the swift Macedonian conquest: It appears that Alexander and his staff owed their success not only to their military talent but also to their communication skills and their capacity to cater to the expectations of their audiences."--Publisher information.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction : understanding Alexander's relations with his subjects / Kai Trampedach, Alexander Meeus
• From early on to become a hero ('Held') : mythical models of Alexander's image and biography / Tonio Hölscher
• Staging charisma : Alexander and divination / Kai Trampedach
• Alexander and athletics or how (not) to use a traditional field of monarchic legitimation / Christian Mann
• Violence and legitimation : the social logic of Alexander the Great's acts of violence between the Danube and the Indus : a conceptual outline and a case study / Matthias Haake
• Alexander's dedications to the gods : sacred space, pious practice and public legitimation / Ralf von den Hoff
• Communcation and legitimation : knowledge of Alexander's Asian conquests in the Greek world / Shane Wallace
• Legitimation, unwitting and unrequested : Alexander of Macedon's portrayal as divine tool in Zechariah 9 / Wilhelm Köhler
• Wooing the victor with words : Babylonian priestly literature as a response to the Macedonian conquest / Michael Jursa
• Shaping the new world : once more on the cities of Alexander / Maurizio Giangiulio
• Alexander, the king of the Macedonians / Manuela Mari
• On the titulature of Alexander the Great : the title basileus / Maxim M Kholod
• Alexander the Great and Asia Minor : conquest and strategies of legitimation / Michele Faraguna
• Alexander's tributary empire / Andrew Monson
• The strategies of legitination of Alexander and the Diadochoi : continuities and discontinuities / Alexander Meeus
• Concluding remarks / Hans-Joachim Gehrke.

Contributors:

Trampedach, Kai , editor

Meeus, Alexander , editor

Meetings:

Alexander's empire (Conference) (2018 : Centro italo-tedesco Villa Vigoni) , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Series:

Studies in ancient monarchies; v. 7

Alte Geschichte (Stuttgart, Germany)

Subjects:

Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C.

Greece — History — Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C.

General Notes:

"With one exception the papers in this volume originate in the conference 'Alexander's empire : the legitimation of conquest' which was held at the Villa Vigoni (Menaggio, Italy) on May 10-12, 2018."--page 7.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-362).
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

DF234 .L43 2020eb

ISBNs:

9783515127837 (electronic bk.)
3515127836 (electronic bk.)
9783515127813 [Invalid]
351512781X [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1176508046

Other Control Numbers:

EBC6266866 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp16851921