Göttingen, Universiẗat, Diss., 2004.

Freie Univ., Diss. u.d.T.: Koulakiotis, Elias: Das griechische Alexanderbild--Berlin, 2001.

Zugl.: Marburg, Universiẗat, Magisterarbeit, 2003/04.

Diss.--Philosophische Fakultät I--Zürich--Universität Zürich, 1988.

Thèse--Université de Paris. / "Bibliographie": p. [125]-128.

Inaug.- diss. - Leipzig. / Vita.

Thèse--Université de Paris. / "Bibliographie": p. [125]-128.

This study aims to explore how the Alexander Romance entered the Persian literary tradition and to understand precisely its influence. The main question addressed is whether the Alexander Romance was part of the pre-Islamic Persian tradition and, if so, what its key characteristics were. Because of the dearth of pre-Islamic Persian sources, this thesis is necessarily mostly based on early Arabic and Persian sources written in the early Islamic period, some of which were derived from pre-Islamic traditions. Aside from the Shāhnāma of Firdawsī, the Arabic histories (Ṭabarī, Dinawarī, the anonymous Nihāyat al-‘arab, the Ghurar al-Sayr of Thaʻālibī) included Alexander in their chapters on the Kayānid kings, presenting him as the half-brother of Dārā (Darius III). My examination of these histories largely focuses on their understanding of the Persian descent of Alexander, which is derived from the Sasanian Khudāynāmag. Most scholars have looked askance at the presence of a positive perspective on Alexander in the Persian world because the Zoroastrian tradition usually presented him as a cursed figure and one of Persia’s worst enemies. Perhaps one of the original contributions of this thesis will thus be its demonstration of the existence of a very positive view of Alexander in the classical Arabic and Persian sources that is not just the result of biases derived from the Islamic era, but which also reflects the viewpoint of numerous pre-Islamic Persian sources on Alexander. Current research in the field also focuses on the influence of the Alexander Romance on Persian epics, romances and storytelling. In this respect, I have focused mainly on the two key literary genres: the popular romances, mainly in prose, and the epics, mainly in verse. Of great interest to this study are the Dārābnāma of Ṭarsūsī (twelfth century), the epic of the Shāhnāma of Firdawsī (tenth–eleventh century), besides the Iskandarnāma of Niẓāmī (twelfth century). These works all preserve stories about Alexander the Great from the pre-Islamic Persian tradition.

"This paper will attempt to bring out Pope's character as it was affected by his physical deformity and the circumstances of his life, both the social and religious aspects. His personal characteristics will be studied to discover which were normal and which had an abnormal trend. Finally, it will be shown to what extent these characteristics influenced his writings"--Introduction. / Typescript. / "August, 1946." / "Submitted to the Graduate Committee of Florida State College for Women in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts under Plan II." / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 34).

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University / The purpose of the investigation of Alexander's value theory is to present his most important value concepts and to determine how well he treated the subject. Certain questions must be asked at the beginning of an investigation of value theory. The following are representative questions. How do values come to be known? How does knowledge of value differ from common knowledge experience? What orders of existence can be found to support value experience? Answers to these and similar questions are derived from a theory of knowledge and a theory of being. Alexander answers the questions concerning value from the perspective of a realistic naturalist. The source material for this thesis is found in the works of Samuel Alexander and in books and articles about his works. A primarily important source is his metaphysics, Space, Time, and Deity. [TRUNCATED]