Channelling His Inner Semiramis : Alexander and His Quest to Overcome the Assyrian Queen

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14232/suc.2023.4.79-109" target="_blank" >10.14232/suc.2023.4.79-109</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Channelling His Inner Semiramis : Alexander and His Quest to Overcome the Assyrian Queen

Original language description

Alexander the Great desired to outdo all the great generals in history and one of them was the famed Queen Semiramis. The episodes from their lives were occasionally put in comparison, and both gained legendary status among the ancient rulers. Alexander eventually surpassed Semiramis, but why was she so important to Alexander? The life of Semiramis was for the first time described by Ctesias in his Persica. The problem is that he died several decades before the rule of Alexander. Therefore, he did not record the striking similarities between her life and the episodes from Alexander’s conquest. Ctesias’ original account was adapted by later authors who altered some elements of the story in the wake of Alexander’s expedition. In this article, we will focus on the similarities in the episodes from the lives of two conquerors, how Alexander fared compared to the Assyrian queen, and who was responsible for putting the tales in comparison, whether it was Ctesias, Diodorus, or someone else.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Sapiens ubique civis

ISSN

2732-317X

e-ISSN

2786-2984

Volume of the periodical

4

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1. 12. 2023

Country of publishing house

HU - HUNGARY

Number of pages

31

Pages from-to

79-109

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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