The Legitimation of Conquest: Monarchical Representation and the Art of Government in the Empire of Alexander the Great

CONTENTS
PREFACE
Introduction: Understanding Alexander’s Relations with His Subjects  (Kai Trampedach / Alexander Meeus)
I: SELF-PRESENTATION AND ROYAL PERSONA
	1 From Early On To Become A Hero (‘Held’): Mythical Models
of Alexander’s Image and Biography (Tonio Hölscher)
	2 Staging Charisma: Alexander and Divination (Kai Trampedach)
	3 Alexander and Athletics or How (Not) To Use a Traditional
Field of Monarchic Legitimation (Christian Mann)
	4 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)
II: LOCAL PERSPECTIVES AND INTERACTIONS
	5 Alexander’s Dedications to the Gods: Sacred Space, Pious Practice
and Public Legitimation (Ralf von den Hoff)
	6 Communication and Legitimation: Knowledge of Alexander’s Asian
Conquests in the Greek World (Shane Wallace)
	7 Legitimation – Unwitting and Unrequested: Alexander of Macedon’s
Portrayal as Devine Tool in Zechariah 9 (Wilhelm Köhler)
	8 Wooing the Victor with Words: Babylonian Priestly Literature
as a Response to the Macedonian Conquest (Michael Jursa)
	9 Shaping the New World: Once More On the Cities of Alexander (Maurizio Giangiulio)
III: ADMINISTRATION AND INSTITUTIONS
	10 Alexander, the King of the Macedonians (Manuela Mari)
	11 On the Titulature of Alexander the Great: The Title basileus (Maxim M. Kholod)
	12 Alexander the Great and Asia Minor: Conquest and Strategies
of Legitimation (Michele Faraguna)
	13 Alexander’s Tributary Empire (Andrew Monson)
IV: EPILOGUES
	14 The Strategies of Legitimation of Alexander and the Diadochoi:
Continuities and Discontinuities (Alexander Meeus)
	15 Concluding Remarks (Hans-Joachim Gehrke)
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