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ONLINE Conference 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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323 BC is a well-known date for everyone interested in Antiquity. It marks, of course, the death of the great Alexander, and in some way, despite probable discussion, the beginning of the Hellenistic age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


During the last four decades, studies on Alexander have been  published on almost any journal dedicated to Classics and Ancient History. A overwellming collection of topics, themes and approaches obligates every scholar on Alexander to review in deep any inch of piece of the short amount of information we have on Alexander.
Indeed, 2023 can be considered as a date to celebrate a commemoration of the fake centenary of Alexander’s death. In order to celebrate, after all, life and research, let me offer a first event on this ‘centenary’, focusing our attention to the representations, types and forms, of Alexander’s widr Reception, from antiquity to our own times of screens and digital media.

During the days of Jannuary 2023, 23rd to 25th, an Online Meeting will be conducted Worldwide, via Zoom, from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain), in order to share and discuss the many different faces (and the common features too) of the image and representation of Alexander the Great in Art, Literature and Paintings, from ancient mosaics and stone portrait to comic, manga, anim\u00e9, novels, tv series, toons, etc., from classic art to pop art and beyond.

Some different efforts to embrace the complex tradition of the many features of Alexander the great beyond History have been recently published (i.e., the books of F. j. G\u00f3mez Espelos\u00edn, ‘En busca de Alejandro. Historia de una Obsesi\u00f3n’, in 2016, and  Pierre Briant, ‘Alexandre: Ex\u00e9g\u00e8se des lieux communs’,  in 2016, the chapters in K. Moore’s ‘Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Alexander the Great’, in 2018, or the book ‘Alejandro en las pantallas’, by O. LaPe\u00f1a and myself, published in late 2020, among others), but these previous research barely sketched some topics, and reading them one can only wish to go deep and in a wide way for more study cases, approaches, and cross perspectives.
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This will be the starting point of the commemorative cellebration worldwide of the ‘Year Alexander 2023’, with a lot of events to be announced soon (including a conference – a in-person meeting- on new perspectives on Alexander, in Madrid, to be announced soon with a call, for June 2023, among many other events and activities).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Forever Alexander ONLINE CONFERENCE 23-25 Jannuary 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

23-25 Jannuary 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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January 23rd<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Welcome and Introductory remarks by the Organizers: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Borja Antela-Bern\u00e1rdez & Marc Mendoza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Inaugural Conference:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Olga Palagia (National & Kapodrisian University of Athens): Painted images of Alexander in antiquity<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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