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Author Dahmen, Karsten

Title The legend of Alexander the Great on Greek and Roman coins / Karsten Dahmen
Edition 1st ed
Published New York : Routledge, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 179 pages) : illustrations
Contents Chapter INTRODUCTION -- chapter 1 IMAGES OF ALEXANDER: A SURVEY OF ALEXANDER'S IMAGE ON ANCIENT COINS -- chapter 2 MAN, KING, HERO AND GOD: ALEXANDER'S CHANGING PORTRAITS -- chapter 3 MAKING GOOD USE OF A LEGEND -- chapter 4 EXCURSUS: ALEXANDER IN DISGUISE
Summary 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 l
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C. -- Portraits
SUBJECT Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C. fast
Subject Coins, Greek.
Coins, Roman.
Coins, Ancient.
Numismatics, Greek.
Numismatics, Roman.
Antiquities
Coins, Ancient
Coins, Greek
Coins, Roman
Numismatics, Greek
Numismatics, Roman
SUBJECT Greece -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057037
Rome -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115088
Subject Greece
Rome (Empire)
Genre/Form Portraits
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2006034904
ISBN 9780203967997
0203967992
0415394511
9780415394512
041539452X
9780415394529
1134159714
9781134159710
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9781280722585
9786610722587
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