Free Download Contested Pasts: A Determinist History of Alexander the Great in the Roman Empire by Jennifer Finn
English | April 18th, 2022 | ISBN: 0472133039 | 245 pages | True PDF | 2.42 MB
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, combined with the Stoic philosophy of determinism present in authors like Plutarch and Arrian. Finn endeavors to determine the ways in which Roman authors manipulated narratives about Alexander’s campaigns-and even other significant events in Mediterranean history-to artificially construct a past to which the Romans could attach themselves as a natural teleological culmination.