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Christian Thrue Djurslev

Department: Classics and Ancient History
Discipline: Classics and Ancient History

Project Summary

Working Title: The Christian Alexander - The Uses of Alexander the Great in Early Christian Literature

A slightly revised abstract might appear here in the immediate future.

The project is kindly sponsored by the A. G. Leventis Foundation.

Supervisory Team

(1) Prof. Daniel Ogden; (2) Dr. Richard Flower.

Wider Research Interests

My wider research interests include (past and present representations of Alexander the Great aside):

Hellenistic Literature, especially Greek poetry and mythography.
Early Christianity and the writings of its theologians.
Late Antiquity, especially (late) Greek Imperial literature and history.
Numismatics, especially Ptolemaic and Imperial coinage.

Authored Publications/Reports

CTD et alii. (1st November 2014) Arrians værker i ny oversættelse, AIGIS, 14.2, http://aigis.igl.ku.dk/2014,2/Vol.14,2.html

CTD & P. Ussher. Eds. (7th June 2013) , Pegasus, 56

CTD (1st May 2011) To taler af Antisthenes, AIGIS, http://aigis.igl.ku.dk/2011,1/Vol.11,1.html

CTD (1st May 2010) Plutarch - Om Alexanders held eller dygtighed, AIGIS, http://aigis.igl.ku.dk/2010,1/Vol.10,1.html

Christian Thrue Djurslev (1st June 2012) Book Review: D. Ogden 'Alexander the Great - Myth, Genesis and Sexuality.' (Exeter, 2011), Pegasus, Issue 55., 42-3.

CTD (1st May 2014) Dragon Myth and Alexander the Great, Pegasus, 57, 45-51

CTD (1st October 2014) The Metal King: Alexander the Great in Heavy Metal music, Metal Music Studies, 1.1., 127-41