Alexander in Africa
By: edited by Philip Bosman
Contributors: Bosman, Philip, editor
Series: Acta classica. Supplementum -- V; Acta classica -- 5.
Publisher: Classical Association of South Africa
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Pretoria
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
Subjects: Congresses; Influence; Discovery and exploration
Notes: "The Alexander papers formed a running panel at the biennial Classical Association of South Africa Conference, which was hosted by Rhodes University that year [2011]."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Alexander and Africa (332-331 BC and beyond) : the facts, the traditions and the problems / Daniel Ogden; title: Alexander in Egypt : considering the Egyptian evidence / Hugh Bowden; title: Callisthenes in Africa : the historian's role at Siwah and in the Proskynesis controversy / Frances Pownall; title: Founding Alexandria : Alexander the Great and the politics of memory / Timothy Howe; title: Demetrius the Besieger on the Nile / Pat Wheatley; title: The Alexander romance tradition from Egypt to Ethiopia / Sulochana Asirvatham; title: The fate of African material in the Greek and Byzantine tradition of the Alexander Romance / Corinne Jouanno; title: From Jerusalem to Timbuktu : the appropriation of Alexander the Great by national narratives / Adrian Tronson; title: Alexander and the unity of mankind : some Cape Town perspectives / John Atkinson.