- Title
- Bosworth on Alexander and the Iranians revisited: Alexander's marriages to Persian brides at Susa: A study of Arrian, Anabasis 7.4.4 - 8
- Creator
- Baynham, Elizabeth
- Relation
- The Courts of Philip II and Alexander the Great: Monarchy and Power in Ancient Macedonia p. 149-168
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110622942-009
- Publisher
- De Gruyter
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2022
- Description
- I should start with some background explanation of this chapter. Forty years ago, in the Centenary Issue of the Journal of Hellenic Studies (1980), my partner, the late A.B. Bosworth, published an article entitled “Alexander and the Iranians” in which he argued that the ancient evidence did not sustain the modern, highly influential, if now outdated, hypothesis of social ideology in relation to Alexander’s treatment of Persians—namely, the so-called “Policy of Fusion” — which had been suggested in the nineteenth century by Johann Gustav Droysen, taking his cue from Plutarch. In one of his last unpublished (and un-annotated) papers that Bosworth was working on before Parkinson’s Disease stopped his capacity to write in 2010/11, he revised his 1980 views in a piece named, aptly enough, “Alexander and the Iranians Revisited.” He did not substantially change his overall thesis at all; in fact, in a typical Bosworthian pithy bon mot he concluded: “I remain convinced that it is misleading to think in terms of fusion. Fission is more appropriate.”
- Subject
- Persians; Alexander the Great; Arrian; brides at Susa
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1448056
- Identifier
- uon:43302
- Identifier
- ISBN:9783110622409
- Language
- eng
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