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