List of Contributors
Sulochana Asirvatham Sulochana R. Asirvatham received her PhD in Classics from Columbia University and is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and Humanities at Montclair State University. Her main focus is on the reception of Alexander the Great and the Macedonians, especially in the Second Sophistic; she has also published several pieces on the Alexander Romance tradition and commentaries for Brill’s New Jacoby on a number of Hellenistic and Roman-period Greek authors.
Elizabeth Baynham Elizabeth Baynham is a Senior Lecturer in Ancient History and Classical Languages in the School of Humanities and Social Science at the The University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia. Her research interests include Classical Greek history, the history and historiography of Alexander the Great and the Successors, and Greek and Roman Art. She has published Alexander the Great, The Unique History of Quintus Curtius (Ann Arbor, 1998), Alexander the Great in Fact and Fiction (with A.B. Bosworth, Oxford, 2000) and East and West in the World Empire of Alexander (with Pat Wheatley, 2015). She is currently collaborating with Pat Wheatley (Univ. Otago) in finishing Bosworth’s incomplete third volume of his Historical Commentary on Arrian (OUP) as well as collaborating with John Yardley (Univ. Ottawa) in writing a Commentary on the Metz Epitome and Liber de Morte for the Clarendon Ancient History series.
Meir Ben Shahar Dr. Ben Shahar was born in Jerusalem. He studied and received His PhD in Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He teaches at the Department of Jewish History at the Hebrew University and Shaʾanan College. His primary research interests are historical consciousness in ancient Judaism, rabbinic literature, Second Temple literature and Josephus.
Reinhold Bichler Reinhold Bichler, born 1947, is retired Professor of Ancient History at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. The main subjects of his research activities are the history of political ideas, esp. ancient utopias; Greek historiography and ethnography, esp. Herodotus and Ctesias; and the reception of ancient history, esp. Alexander and the concept of Hellenism. His publications include Herodots Welt. Der Aufbau der Historie am Bild der fremden Länder und Völker, ihrer Zivilisation und ihrer Geschichte (Berlin, 2000), (with Robert Rollinger) Herodot (Hildesheim, 2000), and Historiographie—Ethnographie—Utopie. Gesammelte Schriften (4 volumes: Wiesbaden, 2007–2016).
Alastair Blanshard Alastair J.L. Blanshard is a senior lecturer in Classics & Ancient History at the University of Sydney. He is the author of Hercules: A Heroic Life (2005).
Barbara Blythe Barbara Blythe received her doctorate in Classics from Brown University. She is now Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics at Wheaton College in Norton, MA. Her research focuses on the Greek and Latin novel, the reception of Alexander the Great, Roman conceptions of gender and sexuality, and ancient religion. She is currently working on a book on representations of cult practice in the ancient novel.
Margaret Butler Margaret E. Butler received her B.A. in Classics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before earning her PhD in Classics from Stanford. Her research has focused on the growth of Macedon under Philip II, with a particular emphasis on institutional change, regional systems, and ritual behaviour. Her more recent work explores leadership, transformative change, and opportunity logics. Meg has worked on archaeological projects in the United States, Jordan, Sicily, and Greece, and she has sociological ethnographic fieldwork experience. Currently she is working on two different projects: a “state-of-the-field” survey of Classical archaeologists’ current understanding of the concept of Hellenization and a narrative archaeology of landscape and material culture in southern Patagonia and Antarctica. She is a Fellow of Ralston College and lives most of the year in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Ada Cohen Ada Cohen is a professor of Art History and the Israel Evans Professor in Oratory and Belles Lettres at Dartmouth College. She is the author of The Alexander Mosaic: Stories of Victory and Defeat and Art in the Era of Alexander the Great: Paradigms of Manhood and Their Cultural Traditions. She has co-edited and contributed to Constructions of Childhood in Ancient Greece and Italy and Assyrian Reliefs from the Palace of Ashurnasirpal II: A Cultural Biography. She is also the co-author of Inside an Ancient Assyrian Palace: Looking at Austen Henry Layard’s Reconstruction.
Giulio Celotto Giulio Celotto took his BA (2007) and MA (2009) in Classics at the University of Naples ‘Federico II’, with two theses respectively on Lucan and Tacitus. In 2010 he started a PhD in Classics at the University of Florence, before moving to FSU in 2011, where he completed his PhD His dissertation is entitled Love and Strife in Lucan’s ‘Bellum Civile’. His main area of interest is Silver Age Latin Literature, especially Lucan. In particular, he focuses on the intertextual relationships between the Bellum Civile and the works of other Latin authors, such as Vergil, Ovid, Seneca, Juvenal, Tacitus. He has presented papers at CAMWS-SS 2012; CAMWS 2013, 2014, and 2015; SCS 2015; and a few graduate student conferences. He has one article published in Mnemosyne (‘Leonidas AP 6.188’), and another one forthcoming in Hermes (‘Ἐνιαυτός in Hesiod Theogony 58: One-Year Pregnancy in Archaic Greek Poetry’).
Juanno Corrine Corinne Jouanno is professor of Ancient Greek language and literature at the University of Caen-Normandy (France). Her main field of investigation is Byzantine fiction (novels, epics, and fictional biographies). She has translated the Alexander Romance into French (Histoire merveilleuse du roi Alexandre maître du monde, 2009), and explored the various Greek versions of the Alexander Romance in Naissance et métamorphoses du Roman d’ Alexandre. Domaine grec (2002).
Kyle Erickson Kyle Erickson is the Head of School of Classics at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. His work has focused primarily on the Seleucids and on the Alexander Romance tradition. He has edited several books on the Seleucids and on the Alexander Tradition in the East.
Agnieszka Fulińska Graduated in Literary Studies and Classical Archaeology from the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, where she also studied history and art history. PhD in Modern Literatures, specializing in classical reception studies, and in Classical Art, specializing in the public image of power. Published monographs on Early Modern theories of imitation of classical models (Naśladowanie i twórczość [Imitation and Creativity], Wrocław 2000), portraits and legend of Mithridates VI Eupator (Nowy Aleksander. Ikonografia i legenda Mitrydatesa VI Eupatora [New Alexander. Iconography and Legend of Mithridates VI Eupator], Kraków 2016), and numerous papers on classical reception and Hellenistic iconography; in print is a monograph on the public image of Hellenistic rulers and its impact on later royal/imperial iconography (Jak Grecy stworzyli królów [How the Greeks Created the Kings], forthcoming). Since 2013 her research interests have been focused mostly on classical reception in the Napoleonic propaganda and legend, resulting in a number of papers on medallic production, propaganda and rhetoric of the period. At present she prepares monographs on the 19th and early 20th century legend of Napoleon’s son, the Aiglon, and on classical models in military commemoration from the wars of the French Republic to the Franco-Prussian war. She is also about to publish some Napoleonic period-related documents from the Central European archives. In spare time she translates poetry, and published in Polish works e.g. by John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Wordsworth, Arthur Rimbaud and Constantine P. Cavafy.
Dawn Gilley Dr. Dawn L. Gilley is an Associate Professor of Humanities at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri. Her research focuses on Alexander the Great, Plutarch, and the Second Sophistic as well as fourth-century Greece, especially Thebes and the Boeotian Confederacy.
John Holton John Holton is Lecturer in Ancient History at Newcastle University. His research interests lie in late Classical and Hellenistic history and culture, particularly Alexander the Great, Hellenistic kingship, and Hellenistic historiography. He has published articles and chapters relating to these interests, and is currently completing a monograph based on his doctoral thesis, entitled Kingship and Royal Self-Representation in the Early Hellenistic World.
Aleksandra Klęczar Aleksandra Klęczar is an Associate Professor in the Institute of Classical Philology at the Jagiellonian University in Poland. She is interested in both Greek and Latin literature, with particular emphasis on Hellenism and its influence on phenomena in later culture, both Greek and Roman. Her work addresses issues of Greek culture and the oriental tradition (Attis and Adonis, Greek-Jewish literature) and the presence of Greek tradition in Roman poetry (Katullus, Statius). She is the author of Katullus: All Poetry, Homini Publishing House—Tyniec, Krakow 2013.
Elias Koulakiotis Elias Koulakiotis is Assistant Professor in Ancient Greek History at the University of Ioannina, Greece. He studied Classical Philology, Ancient History and Anthropology of Ancient Greece in Ioannina, Paris and Berlin, and was research fellow at Columbus, Ohio and London. He is interested in political and cultural aspects of the Ancient Greek and Roman World, and is associate member of AnHiMA, Paris. His publications include Genese und Metamorphosen des Alexandermythos (2006), Marathon. The Day After (2013, ed. with K. Buraselis) and Political Religions: Discourses, Practices and Images in the Graeco-Roman World (forthcoming, ed. with T. Howe).
Alexander McAuley Alex McAuley is Lecturer in Hellenistic History at Cardiff University, and previously taught at the University of British Columbia. His main research interests are the royal ideology of the Successor dynasties of the Hellenistic World, and the dynamics of localism in the Hellenistic Greek Mainland. He has published widely on royal women, the genealogy of the Seleucid dynasty, Greek local government, and the reception of antiquity in film and television.
Rachael Mairs Rachel Mairs is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Reading. She has previously held positions at Brown University, the University of Oxford, and New York University. Her most recent publications include The Hellenistic Far East: Archaeology, Language and Identity in Greek Central Asia (University of California Press 2014), Archaeologists, Tourists, Interpreters: Exploring Egypt and the Near East in the Late 19th–Early 20th Centuries (with Maya Muratov: Bloomsbury 2015), and From Khartoum to Jerusalem: The Dragoman Solomon Negima and his Clients (1885–1933) (Bloomsbury 2016).
K.R. Moore Ken Moore is a senior lecturer in the History of Ideas and, at the time of writing this chapter, the programme leader (BA Hons) of the History section at Teesside University, Middlesbrough, UK (for his sins). He is first and foremost a student of Platonic philosophy and 5th–4th century BC Athens and has come to the study of Alexander somewhat obliquely by that route. He teaches a third-year class titled “Images of Alexander” in which especial emphasis is placed on the historiographical issues in Alexander scholarship and for which, hopefully, this chapter and this Companion will each be a welcome aid.
Alexandra Morris Alexandra Morris is pursuing a graduate degree in Museum Studies at New York University (2016). She was a Presidential Scholar at the State University of New York at Potsdam, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with a triple major in Archaeology, Anthropology and Art History, with minors in Classics and History. She also received a Master’s degree in Egyptology from the University of Pennsylvania. She has presented at numerous conferences, lectures, and symposiums worldwide ranging from Brooking, South Dakota, USA, to New York to Athens with an emphasis on the disabled of the ancient world, specifically in ancient Egypt and Greece. Specific papers have included: “Alexander the Great: Head to Head with CTE (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy)”, “A Look at the Physically Disabled in Ancient Egypt”, “Alexander’s March to the End Zone: A New Look at the Mental Decline of Alexander the Great”, “A Social & Medical History of Dwarfism in Ancient Egypt”, and “Ekpyrosis: A Look at Alexander the Great”. Ms. Morris has also worked for the Bedford (NY) Historical Society.
Federicomaria Muccioli Federicomaria Muccioli studied at the University of Bologna and earned his PhD at the University of Florence. He is Professor of Greek History at the University of Bologna. His current fields of research are: heroic and divine cults in the Greek world, tyrants and leaders in Sicily and Magna Graecia in the Classical and Hellenistic periods, the political and social history of Hellenism, Plutarch and ancient biography, and Greek historiography in the Roman Empire. He has published widely since 1990, his most significant works being Dionisio II. Storia e tradizione letteraria (1999); La storia attraverso gli esempi. Protagonisti e interpretazioni del mondo greco in Plutarco (2012); Gli epiteti ufficiali dei re ellenistici (2013); Divinizzazione, culto del sovrano e apoteosi. Tra Antichità e Medioevo (2014), edited with T. Gnoli; La città inquieta. Selinunte tra lex sacra e defixiones (2015), edited with A. Iannucci and M. Zaccarini. He is currently working on a book over parody and criticism of power in the Greek World (IV–I Century BC).
James Mullen At the time of writing James Mullen is reading for his PhD in Ancient History at Newcastle University. He is due to submit his thesis, examining Alexander’s use of the royal hunt as an institution to reconcile the expectations of the various royal ideologies in his empire, in May 2018.
Sabine Müller Sabine Müller is Professor of Ancient History at Marburg University. Her main fields of research are ancient Persia, Argead Macedonia, the Hellenistic Empires, Lucian, the Arsacid Empire, and reception of antiquity in medieval and modern art and literature. Her main publications include Alexander, Makedonien und Persien (2014) and Die Argeaden. Geschichte Makedoniens bis zum Zeitalter Alexanders des Großen (2016).
Jacob Nabel Jake Nabel is a graduate student in Ancient History at Cornell University; his research focuses on the relationship between the polities of the classical Mediterranean and the empires of pre-Islamic Iran. His dissertation, “The Arsacids of Rome: Royal Hostages and Roman-Parthian Relations in the First Century CE,” is a study of political intermediaries between Julio-Claudian Rome and the Arsacid dynasty of Parthia.
Krzysztof Nawotka Krzysztof Nawotka, PhD (1991), The Ohio State University, is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Wrocław, Poland; once Honorary Research Fellow, University of Liverpool, and Visiting Scholar, Brown University; from 2015 a member of the Academia Europaea. He has published on Greek cities on the cost of the Black Sea (The Western Pontic Cities: History and Political Organization, Hakkert 1997), Greek legislation (Boule and Demos in Miletus and its Pontic Colonies, Harrassowitz 2014), Alexander the Great (Alexander the Great, CSP 2010, and two co-edited volumes for Harrassowitz: Alexander the Great and Egypt: History, Art, Tradition, 2014; Alexander the Great and the East: History, Art, Tradition, 2016). His historical commentary on the Alexander Romance is published by Brill in 2017.
Olga Palagia Olga Palagia is Professor of Classical Archaeology, Emerita, at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She has published extensively on Greek sculpture and the art of Macedonia and has edited a range of honorary volumes and conference proceedings, the most recent being Naupaktos (Athens 2016). Her monographs include The Pediments of the Parthenon (Leiden 1993) and she has co-authored (with Eugene Borza) the influential “The Chronology of the Macedonian Royal Tombs at Vergina” in the Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts 122 (2007).
Jaakkojuhani Peltonen Jaakkojuhani Peltonen is a researcher at the University of Tampere, Finland. His doctoral thesis is titled “Using the Past, Shaping the Present—Alexander the Great in the Greco-Roman textual imagery (150 BC–600 AD)”, completed in 2016. At the moment he is editing a book on the legitimization of wars from the ancient to modern world. His special interests include the use of history, Alexander the Great, and perceptions of the past in the classical world.
Ryan, Terry Terry Ryan is a Senior Lecturer in Ancient History & Classical Languages at The University of Newcastle, Australia. During his career he has taught historically based courses on Sexuality in Antiquity, Philip II and Alexander the Great, Sparta, and Early and Late Roman Republic. His main literary interests include Catullus, Greek and Roman love poetry, Greek and Roman Epic, and Ancient Historiography. He is co-author of Sexuality in Greek and Roman Society and Literature: a Sourcebook with Routledge (2005). A second, revised edition is in progress.
Giuseppe Squillace Giuseppe Squillace is Associate Professor of Ancient History at the University of Calabria (Italy). He investigated the themes of Macedonian and Anti-Macedonian propaganda during the reigns of Philip II and Alexander focusing on origin, use, goals and recipients of the messages, and their infiltration in the historical tradition. On this topic he published two monographs (Basileis o tyrannoi. Filippo II e Alessandro Magno tra opposizione e consenso, 2004 and Filippo il Macedone, 2009) and many papers, e.g. “Propaganda macedone e spedizione asiatica. Gli oikeioi logoi di Alessandro Magno alle truppe” (2004); “La voce del vinto? La lettera di Dario III ad Alessandro Magno a Marato nel 332 a.C. Nota a Diodoro XVII 39,1–2” (2006); “Consensus Strategies under Philip and Alexander. The Revenge Theme”. (2010); “Religio instrumentum imperii. Strategie propagandistiche di Filippo II e Alessandro Magno” (2014).
Guendalina D.M. Taietti Guendalina D.M. Taietti did her PhD at the Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology of the University of Liverpool, exploring several aspects of the Greek Reception of Alexander the Great from antiquity to the present day. Guen has a BA in Classical Philology (2005) and an MA in Ancient History (2007), both from the University of Pavia. In 2008–2012 she worked as an Italian and Classics teacher in Greece; in 2014–2015 she joined the ‘Liverpool School Classics Project’ as a teacher of Greek, Latin, and Ancient History and she was the Ancient Greek IA/IB module convenor at the University of Liverpool. Presently Guen is spending a research period at the British School of Athens, where she is working on several projects on the Greek Alexander-reception.
Shane Wallace Shane Wallace was born in Limerick and educated in NUI Galway, University College Dublin, the École normale supérieure, Paris, and the University of Edinburgh. He is currently the Walsh Family Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at Trinity College Dublin. He works on the history and epigraphy of the early Hellenistic world and has particular interests in the rhetoric of freedom, the reception of Alexander the Great, Greek epigraphy, Hellenistic Bactria, and Greek historiography (esp. Diodorus Siculus). He is completing a monograph entitled The Politics of Freedom: Kings and Cities in the Early Hellenistic Period and an edited volume entitled The Hellenistic Court (with Andrew Erskine and Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones). He lives in leafy Dublin with his wife, son, and two cats.
Jason Warren Lieutenant Colonel Jason W. Warren, PhD, is a 1999 West Point graduate, who received his commission in the Military Police Corps. He has served in various military assignments including platoon leader, battalion logistics officer, company commander, and provost marshal. In addition to serving for four years in Germany, LTC Warren served in the Sinai, Egypt, and Kandahar, Afghanistan, the latter deployment for which he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal. He studied military history at The Ohio State University, and returned to teach military history at West Point from 2009–2012. While teaching at West Point, Ohio State awarded LTC Warren the PhD, and he was subsequently promoted to Assistant Professor. His research focuses on warfare in early colonial America. In 2014, Oklahoma University Press published LTC Warren’s Connecticut Unscathed: Victory in the Great Narragansett War, 1675–1676. The Army War College recognized Connecticut Unscathed with the Colonel John J. Madigan III Award for best faculty monograph. Routledge also published his chapter on King Philip’s War and Bacon’s Rebellion in a diplomatic and military history handbook. He is editor and contributor for Drawdown: America’s Way of Postwar with New York University Press, 2016. His other academic interests include the military history of the ancient world and modern military affairs. His recent article “The Centurion Mindset and the Army’s Strategic Leader Paradigm” in Parameters also earned a Madigan Award. In addition to 30 academic presentations and lectures, LTC Warren published “Beyond Emotion: The Epidamnian Affair and Corinthian Policy, 480–421 BC” in the Ancient History Bulletin in 2003. He currently serves as an Assistant Professor at the U.S. Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, PA.
Joseph Wiesehöfer Born in 1951, Josef Wiesehöfer studied History, Indo-European Linguistics and Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Muenster (Westphalia, Germany), where he got his PhD in 1977 with a thesis on the rebellion of Gaumata and the early years of Darius I (6th century BCE). In 1988, he was awarded the habilitation at the University of Heidelberg (with a ‘Habilitationsschrift’ on the so-called Dark Ages of Fars (Southwestern Iran) in Early Hellenistic times). In 1989, he was appointed Professor of Ancient History at the University of Kiel and Director of its ‘Institute of Classics’. He retired in October 2016. Josef Wiesehöfer is an ordinary member of the ‘German Archaeological Institute’ and the ‘Academia Europaea’ and a correspondent member of the ‘Academy of Sciences at Goettingen’. He is main editor of the series ‘Kieler Felix Jacoby-Vorlesungen’ (Heidelberg) and ‘Oriens et Occidens’ (Stuttgart) as well as co-editor of several other series. His main scholarly interests lie in the History of the Ancient Near East (especially Pre-Islamic Iran) and its relations with the Greco-Roman worlds, in Greek and Roman Social History, in the History of the Jews in Antiquity and in the History of Scholarship.
Agnieszka Wojciechowska Agnieszka Wojciechowska, PhD (2008), University of Wrocław, Poland, is an ancient historian and classicist, educated in Wrocław and Liverpool, now Assistant Professor at the Institute of Classical Philology and Ancient Culture, University of Wrocław, Poland; once a fellow at the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology of the University of Warsaw in Cairo (2005–2006) and a visiting scholar, Brown University (2016); from 2015 a co-investigator in the project of the National Science Centre, Poland: “Greek city in the Hellenistic and Roman age and the territorial powers”. She has published on Ancient Egypt of the Late Period and the Hellenistic and Roman age: From Amyrteus to Ptolemy. Egypt in the Fourth century BC, Harrassowitz 2016; “The ushabti of king Aspelta”, Aegyptus 2010; “The Black Legend of Cambyses in Herodotus”, in J. Pigoń (ed.), The Children of Herodotus, CSP 2008, and co-edited two volumes on Alexander the Great: Alexander the Great and Egypt: History, Art, Tradition, Harrassowitz 2014 and Alexander the Great and the East: History, Art, Tradition, Harrassowitz 2016.