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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52086203 Title: Alexander the Great and the mystery of the elephant medallions Author: Frank Lee Holt Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2003. ISBN/ISSN: 0520238818 9780520238817 0520244834 9780520244832 OCLC:52086203

  
  

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Alexander the Great and the mystery of the elephant medallions

Author:	Frank Lee Holt
Publisher:	Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2003.
Series:	Hellenistic culture and society, 44.
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	"To all those who witnessed his extraordinary conquests, from Albania to India, Alexander the Great appeared invincible. How Alexander himself promoted this appearance - how he abetted the belief that he enjoyed divine favor and commanded even the forces of nature against his enemies - is the subject of Frank L. Holt's book." "Solid evidence for the "supernaturalized" Alexander lies in a rare series of medallions that depict the triumphant young king at war against the elephants, archers, and chariots of Rajah Porus of India at the battle of the Hydaspes River. Recovered from Afghanistan and Iraq in sensational and sometimes perilous circumstances, these ancient artifacts have long animated the modern historical debate about Alexander. Holt's book, the first devoted to the mystery of these ancient medallions, takes us into the history of their discovery and interpretation, into the knowable facts of their manufacture and meaning, and, ultimately, into the king's own psyche and his frightening theology of war. The result is a valuable analysis of Alexander history and myth, a vivid account of numismatics, and a look into the age-old mechanics of megalomania."--Jacket.  Read more...
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