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Christopher Schliephake

On Alexander´s Tracks


Exploring Geographies, Memories, and Cultural Identities along the North-West Frontier of British India in the Nineteenth Century
2019. 311 S. 8 schw.-w. Abb. 240 mm
Verlag/Jahr: FRANZ STEINER VERLAG 2019
ISBN: 3-515-12400-4 (3515124004)
Neue ISBN: 978-3-515-12400-3 (9783515124003)

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How did British officers, geographers, and adventurers use the motif of ´travelling´ in Alexander´s ´footsteps´ during their respective missions in Central Asia? Christopher Schliephake shows how the reception of Alexander the Great became an integral part of imperial self-representation and colonial identity in the nineteenth century. As Schliephake argues, the experiential framework of the exploration and conquest of regions like the Punjab or Afghanistan turned the abstract notion of following in Alexander´s ´tracks´ into a highly relevant category for negotiating the relationship between the present and the past, Europe and Asia. However, the further the British explorers advanced, they realized that Alexander had already been waiting for them - he came in the guise of Sikander or Iskander and some local indigenous tribes even claimed direct descent from him. The way the writings of the travelers reacted to the cultural confrontation between a ´Western´ and an ´Eastern´ Alexander will be one of the main themes of this book.
Schliephake, Christopher
Christopher Schliephake is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Augsburg. He specializes in classical reception studies, the study of cultural identities in Graeco-Roman antiquity, and the new interdisciplinary paradigm of the "Environmental Humanities". He has published widely on subjects such as urban studies, post-colonialism, and ancient dream divination.