Sources for Alexander the Great

An Analysis of Plutarch's 'Life' and Arrian's 'Anabasis Alexandrou'

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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 book the attempt is made (surprisingly for the first time) 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 (CUP, 1983) and lays a new basis for work in this area.

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Prolegomena
Plutarch's Sources for the Narrative Passages
Alexander's origin, boyhood and relations with Philip
Balkan campaign, Sack of Thebes and landing in Asia
The set battles in Asia
Alexander and Darius
Phoenicia, Egypt, Mesopotamia and Parthia
Conspiracies and Callisthenes
Bactria, India and Carmania
Persia and Babylonia
Attributions and deductions

Plutarch's reflective passages and Alexander's personality
Arrian's Sources for the Anabasis Alexandrou
The methodology of Arrian
From Macedonia to the Tanais
From the Tanais to the Indus valley
Advance from Nysa and return to the Hydaspes
From the Hydaspes to Persepolis
The last year of Alexander's life

The personality of Arrian and his choice and use of his sources
Index
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Sources for Alexander the Great

An Analysis of Plutarch's 'Life' and Arrian's 'Anabasis Alexandrou'

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