Интернационализация, междукултурно общуване и език при и след Александър Велики
Internationalization, Intercultural Communication and Language in the Age of Alexander the Great and After

Author(s): Daniela Koch-Kozhuharova
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Comparative Study of Literature
Published by: Университет за национално и световно стопанство (УНСС)
Keywords: national identity; european expansion; literary tradition; cosmopolitism; intercultural communication and language
Summary/Abstract: I do not know if it is known in the united Europe that the single European currency, the euro, has as its precedent the single coins for Europe and Asia, which Alexander the Great forged from the untold riches of the Achaemenids. Alexander the Great, the initiator of the first European expansion – to the east, the catalyst of the productive forces of the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East, the monarch who outgrew even the most enlightened mind of his time, and not only, erasing the boundaries between victors and vanquished, has survived for 24 centuries in the literary tradition. The first “image-maker” of Alexander is Callisthenes, a relative of Alexander’s teacher Aristotle. The Bulgarian literary tradition precedes the Spanish one with our Chronographic Alexandria from the 10th-12th centuries, also enriched by Alexandria, conditionally called Serbian, from the 14th century. Spain, for its part, is an inseparable part of the Romanesque world of Medieval Western Europe, with one aggravating specificity – the Arab presence.

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