The missing link? Iconography and literary legend of Alexander the Great
The missing link? Iconography and literary legend of Alexander the Great

Summary/Abstract: The objective of this paper is to ask questions to what extent the study of images and imagery can become a tool for the historian and philologist, helping them to trace lost textual traditions by exploring the frame of mind and ways of expression of a given time as shown by the evidence of visual arts. The greatest flaw of modern Classical Studies seems to be their lack of cooperation between disciplines; this paper intends to show the assets of using the tools of various scholarly fields in order to shed more light on topics which transgress the boundaries of each of them. The case of Alexander’s iconography and the tradition of the Alexander Romance seems a good starting point for such studies. Presented here are the preliminary remarks on the subject, which ought to be treated in depth in their numerous aspects.

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