“‘This world is like a waterwheel’: Alexander and Darius in the mirror”
“‘This world is like a waterwheel’: Alexander and Darius in the mirror”
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“‘这个世界就像一个水车’:镜中的亚历山大和大流士”
DOI:
10.1057/s41280-022-00244-0
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发表时间:
2022
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Alex MacFarlane
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作者:
You-Sheng Lin;Jhih-Rong Liao*;Shiuh-Feng Shiao;Chiun-Cheng Ko;Alex MacFarlane
This article examines 30kafas (short, monorhymed poems) about Alexander the Great and Darius III in a sixteenth-century Armenian manuscript. The anthologist of these poems drew from many hundreds circulating alongside and separately from the ArmenianAlexander Romanceto create a unique set, describing the encounters between the two kings and the turning wheel of their fates. In probing—and picking up—this process of selection, we can glimpse the multiplicity of Alexander, the malleability of his story, and wider ideas about fate that informed thekafas in this manuscript. Intervening in thekafas directly, this article presents a method of engaging with them, bringing medieval permissiveness and modern cut-up poetry together to more intimately understand their mutability.