ROXANA

rŏksănˈə or Roxane–sănˈē, d. 311 b.c., wife of Alexander the Great. She was the daughter of Oxyartes, a Bactrian baron, and Alexander married her (327) to consolidate his power in Persia. She and Alexander's posthumous son, Alexander IV, were, after Alexander's death, embroiled in the wars of the Diadochi and were imprisoned by Cassander at Amphipolis in Macedonia. They were later killed.

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Roxana's Children: The Biography of a Nineteenth-Century Vermont Family
Book by Lynn A. Bonfield, Mary C. Morrison; University of Massachusetts Press, 1995
Subjects: Family--Vermont--Peacham--History--19th Century, Peacham (Vt.)--Biography, United States--Social Life And Customs--19th Century, Watt Family, Watts, Roxana Brown Walbridge--1802-1862--Family
Roxana Brown Walbridge Watts 1802-1862 The Mother Who Held...Peacham, in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. Born Roxana Brown in 1802, she became through her first marriage Roxana Walbridge, and then, through a second marriage, Roxana...
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Anti-Racism, Feminism, and Critical Approaches to Education
Book by Roxana Ng, Pat Staton, Joyce Scane; Bergin & Garvey, 1995
Subjects: Critical Pedagogy--Canada, Discrimination In Education--Canada, Feminism And Education--Canada, Multicultural Education--Canada
...critical approaches to education / edited by Roxana Ng, Pat Staton, and Joyce Scane. p...Discrimination in education -- Canada. I. Ng, Roxana. II. Staton, P. A. Patricia Anne...Data is available. Copyright 1995 by Roxana Ng, Pat Staton, and Joyce Scane All...
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Matched Pairs: Gender and Intertextual Dialogue in Eighteenth-Century Fiction
Book by Joseph F Bartolomeo; University of Delaware Press, 2002
Subjects: Authorship--Sex Differences, English Fiction--18th Century--History And Criticism, English Fiction--Male Authors--History And Criticism, English Fiction--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Intertextuality, Men In Literature, Sex Role In Literature, Women And Literature--Great Britain--History--18th Century, Women In Literature
...Entertainment, 150-51. 36. JanetE. Aikins, Roxana: The Unfortunate Mistress of Conversation...Zimmerman, Language and Character in Defoes Roxana, Essays in Criticism 21 (1991) : 228, remarks that Roxana is unable to reconcile her moral generalizations...
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Women, Accounting, and Narrative: Keeping Books in Eighteenth-Century England
Book by Rebecca Elisabeth Connor; Routledge, 2004
Subjects: Behn, Aphra--1640-1689--Fair Jilt, Bookkeeping--England--History--18th Century, Defoe, Daniel--1661?-1731--Fortunes And Misfortunes Of The Famous Moll Flanders, Women Accountants--England--History--18th Century, Women--England--History--18th Century
...on personal over real property, Defoes Roxana also qualifies as a novel of personality...of real property is even more acute in Roxana than in Moll Flanders because the accumulation...designs - prompt the Landlord to offer Roxana the rents from his properties. When they...
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Writing British Infanticide: Child-Murder, Gender, and Print, 1722-1859
Book by Jennifer Thorn; University of Delaware Press, 2003
Subjects: Children In Literature, Children--Crimes Against--Great Britain--History--18th Century, Children--Crimes Against--Great Britain--History--19th Century, English Fiction--History And Criticism, English Prose Literature--18th Century--History And Criticism, English Prose Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism, Infanticide In Literature, Infanticide--Great Britain--History, Murder In Literature, Sex Role In Literature, Women Murderers In Literature
...motherhood without reference to material circumstances. But in fact, in Roxana Defoe takes the revision too far. Roxana. inverts Moll Flanderss reductions as Roxana attempts to make maternity a purely economic affair. Ironically, of course...
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Defoe's Roxana: The Making and Unmaking of a Heroine
Journal article by Julie Crane; The Modern Language Review, Vol. 102, 2007
Subjects: Defoe, Daniel--Criticism and interpretation, Defoe, Daniel--Works, Heroines--Portrayals, Journal of the Plague Year and Roxana (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Novelists--Criticism and interpretation, Novelists--Works, Novels--Criticism and interpretation
Defoes Roxana: The Making and Unmaking of a Heroine...between Defoes Journal of the Plague Year and Roxana, claiming a link between them in terms...ruin. The central argument is that in Roxana Defoe portrays a heroine who loses her...
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The 1740 Roxana: Defoe, Haywood, Richardson, and Domestic Fiction
Journal article by Nicholas Seager; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 88, 2009
Subjects: Authors--Criticism and interpretation, Defoe, Daniel--Criticism and interpretation, Domestic drama--Portrayals, Haywood, Eliza--Criticism and interpretation, Richardson, Samuel--Criticism and interpretation, The Fortunate Mistress; or, Roxana (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Writers--Criticism and interpretation
The 1740 Roxana: Defoe, Haywood, Richardson, and Domestic...During the denouement of Daniel Defoes Roxana (1724), the protagonists daughter Susan...her first marriage reappears, prompting Roxana to fear that the "Life full of prosperous...
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Did Defoe Write Moll Flanders and Roxana?
Journal article by Ashley Marshall; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 89, 2010
Subjects: Authors--Criticism and interpretation, Defoe, Daniel--Criticism and interpretation, Moll Flanders (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, The Fortunate Mistress; or, Roxana (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Writers--Criticism and interpretation
Did Defoe Write Moll Flanders and Roxana? by Ashley Marshall The question in my...exists for assigning Moll Flanders and Roxana to Defoe. (1) That evidence is late...introduction to his Pickering and Chatto Roxana alludes only briefly to the posthumous...
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Loose Ends in 'Roxana' and 'The French Lieutenant's Woman.'
Journal article by Dianne Osland; Studies in the Novel, Vol. 25, 1993
Subjects: Defoe, Daniel--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Fowles, John--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Roxana (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The French Lieutenant's Woman (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Women--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
Loose ends in Roxana and The French Lieutenants Woman. by Dianne Osland In Defoes Roxana the Dutch Merchant devises a cunning plan whereby...Neither the plan nor its novelty is lost on Roxana. Nor is its likelihood of success "with any...
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Did Defoe Write Roxana? Does It Matter?
Journal article by Robert J. Griffin; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 89, 2010
Subjects: Defoe, Daniel--Criticism and interpretation, Novelists--Criticism and interpretation, The Fortunate Mistress; or, Roxana (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation
Did Defoe Write Roxana? Does It Matter? by Robert J. Griffin...eighteenth-century continuations of Roxana published a few years ago, I traced the...was no such simple creature as "Defoes Roxana". There were Roxanas in the plural...
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magazine articles on: Roxana  - 293 results

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Student Journalists Honored, Hear Keynote from Roxana Saberi
Magazine article; The Quill, Vol. 97, September 2009
Subjects: Awards & honors
Student Journalists Honored, Hear Keynote from Roxana Saberi Student journalists working in print, broadcast and...during the preceding calendar year. Freelance journalist Roxana Saberi headlined the event and delivered the keynote address...
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Iranian Film Premieres at Cannes Film Festival
Magazine article; The Middle East, June 2009
Subjects: Cannes Film Festival--2009 AD, Film festivals, No One Knows About Persian Cats (Motion picture), Saberi, Roxana--Works
...Festival has heaped praise on No One Knows About Persian Cats, a feature film co-scripted by American-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi, recently released from prison in Iran on charges of spying, and her partner, the films director, Bahman Ghobadi...
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Contested Terrain
Magazine article by Roxana Robinson; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 28, Summer 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Georgia O'Keeffee (Book), Georgia O'Keeffee and New Mexico: A Sense of Place (Book)--Book reviews
Contested Terrain. by Roxana Robinson GEORGIA OKEEFFE AND NEW MEXICO: A Sense of Place. By Barbara...that ensuing discussions could be informed as well as imaginative. ROXANA ROBINSON is the author of Georgia OKeeffe: A Life (1989), a New...
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Holographic Weapon Sights Grip the U.s. Military Market
Magazine article by Roxana Tiron; National Defense, Vol. 89, September 2004
Subjects: Defense contracts, Defense spending, Eotech Inc, Military markets, Military weapons
Holographic Weapon Sights Grip the U.s. Military Market by Roxana Tiron The U.S. Special Operations Command, Army and Marine Corps are...General Dynamics tri barrel .50 caliber Catling gun, said Gallagher. -Roxana Tiron
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The Treatment: A Short Story
Magazine article by Roxana Robinson; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 290, September 2002
Subjects: Fiction--Works, Short stories, Therapeutics--Complications
The Treatment: A Short Story. by Roxana Robinson Here is what I do each morning. As soon as I wake up...achieve merely that. And in that one small thing I am victorious. Roxana Robinson is the author of Georgia OKeeffe: A Life (1999) and...
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newspaper articles on: Roxana  - 214 results

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Roxana Saberi Is Free; but Many More Are in Chains
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 12, 2009
Subjects: National security, Saberi, Roxana
Roxana Saberi Is Free; but Many More Are in Chains...imposed last month on American journalist Roxana Saberi. The Washington Times editorial...executed at any moment. We are happy that Roxana Saberi has been released, but our praise...
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A Plea from Roxana Saberi's Fiance; Iran Tries to Dupe Obama into a Prisoner Swap
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 22, 2009
Subjects: Exchange of prisoners
A Plea from Roxana Saberis Fiance; Iran Tries to Dupe Obama...yesterday from inside Iran on behalf of Roxana Saberi, the 31-year-old Iranian-American...and before any more harm comes to her, Roxana Saberi should be freed.
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Iran Convicts U.S. Journalist of Spying; Woman to Appeal; Obama 'Deeply Disappointed'
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 19, 2009
Subjects: Iranian foreign relations, Journalists, Prisoners, Saberi, Roxana, Spies
...sentenced her to eight years in prison. Roxana Saberi, 31, who also holds Iranian citizenship...Abdolsamad Khorramshahi, lawyer for journalist Roxana Saberi, paces in his office in Tehran...Saberi, mother of American journalist Roxana Saberi, holds a picture of her daughter...
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'I'm So Happy to See My Parents'; US Journalist on Spy Charges Free after 4 Months in Iran Prison
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), May 12, 2009
Subjects: Iranian foreign relations, Journalists, Prisons, Saberi, Roxana
...with her parents and thanked those who helped win her release. Roxana Saberi, 32, was held in a Tehran prison for four months on...which is illegal in Iran, from the black market. Overjoyed: Roxana Saberi waves as she talks to reporters in Tehran. She was convicted...
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A Humanitarian Needs Our Help; Political Prisoner Only Assisted with Health Care Concerns
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 3, 2009
Subjects: Health care industry, Prisoners, Saberi, Roxana
...political charges. We ask the world to come to her aid by calling for her release. Silvas story will sound familiar. Journalist Roxana Saberi suffered through a similar ordeal during her detainment on political charges, and Ms. Saberis release on May 11 gives...
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encyclopedia articles on: Roxana  - 5 results

 
 
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Roxana
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ROXANA roksan or Roxane san e, d. 311 b.c., wife of Alexander the Great . She was the daughter of Oxyartes, a Bactrian baron...
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Alexander the Great
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...them to intermarry with the Persians (he had himself married Roxana , a Bactrian princess, as one of his several wives), and...see Diadochi ). His only son was Alexander Aegus, born to Roxana after Alexanders death and destined for a short and pitiful...
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Cassander
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...strengthen his claim to the throne, he married Alexanders half sister, Thessalonica, and in 311 he murdered Alexanders widow, Roxana, and their son. He resisted the efforts of Antigonus I to rebuild the empire and was one of the coalition that defeated Antigonus...
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Defoe, Daniel
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...astonishing concern for circumstantial detail. His other major works include Captain Singleton (1720), Colonel Jack (1722), Roxana (1724), and A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain (1724 27). In 1724 A General History of the Pyrates by a...
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Diadochi
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...struggle was over the regency; theoretically Alexanders feeble-minded brother, Philip, and also Alexanders posthumous son by Roxana had the real claim to the inheritance. Perdiccas had the regency (323 322), in effect if not in name, to which Antipater...


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