Plutarch and Arrian have contributed more than any other ancient authors to our picture of Alexander the Great, but since they wrote four or more centuries after his death the value of what they said depends upon the sources of information on which they themselves drew. In this 1993 book the attempt is made to define and to evaluate those sources in a detailed study, analysing the historians' works section by section and comparing them with other accounts of the same episodes. This volume completes Professor Hammond's study of the five Alexander-historians begun with Three Historians of…mehr
Plutarch and Arrian have contributed more than any other ancient authors to our picture of Alexander the Great, but since they wrote four or more centuries after his death the value of what they said depends upon the sources of information on which they themselves drew. In this 1993 book the attempt is made to define and to evaluate those sources in a detailed study, analysing the historians' works section by section and comparing them with other accounts of the same episodes. This volume completes Professor Hammond's study of the five Alexander-historians begun with Three Historians of Alexander the Great (Cambridge University Press, 1983) and lays a basis for work in this area.
Preface Abbreviations and select bibliography Prolegomena Part I. Plutarch's Sources for the Narrative Passages: 1. Alexander's origin, boyhood and relations with Philip 2. Balkan campaign, sack of Thebes and landing in Asia 3. The set battles in Asia 4. Alexander and Darius 5. Phoenicia, Egypt, Mesopotamia and Parthia 6. Conspiracies and Callisthenes 7. Bactria, India and Carmania 8. Persia and Babylonia 9. Attributions and deductions Part II: 10. Plutarch's reflective passages and Alexander's personality Part III. Arrian's Sources for the Anabasis Alexandrou: 11. The methodology of Arrian 12. From Macedonia to the Tanaïs 13. From the Tanaïs to the Indus valley 14. Advance from Nysa and return to the Hydaspes 15. From the Hydaspes to Persepolis 16. The last year of Alexander's life Part IV: 17. The personality of Arrian and his choice and use of sources Index.
Preface Abbreviations and select bibliography Prolegomena Part I. Plutarch's Sources for the Narrative Passages: 1. Alexander's origin, boyhood and relations with Philip 2. Balkan campaign, sack of Thebes and landing in Asia 3. The set battles in Asia 4. Alexander and Darius 5. Phoenicia, Egypt, Mesopotamia and Parthia 6. Conspiracies and Callisthenes 7. Bactria, India and Carmania 8. Persia and Babylonia 9. Attributions and deductions Part II: 10. Plutarch's reflective passages and Alexander's personality Part III. Arrian's Sources for the Anabasis Alexandrou: 11. The methodology of Arrian 12. From Macedonia to the Tanaïs 13. From the Tanaïs to the Indus valley 14. Advance from Nysa and return to the Hydaspes 15. From the Hydaspes to Persepolis 16. The last year of Alexander's life Part IV: 17. The personality of Arrian and his choice and use of sources Index.
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