Sources for Alexander the Great
Sources for Alexander the Great
An Analysis of Plutarch's 'Life' and Arrian's 'Anabasis Alexandrou'
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Plutarch and Arrian are the ancient writers who tell us most about Alexander the Great. This book is the first attempt to analyze and evaluate in detail the sources of information they themselves drew on, a necessary first step to appreciating the value of their own accounts. It completes Professor Hammond's study of the five Alexander-historians which began with Three Historians of Alexander the Great (Cambridge University Press 1983) and lays a new basis for work on Alexander.
- Author is a very distinguished ancient historian - many books include Alexander the Great: King, Commander and Statesman (Noyes 1980, 2nd edn BCP 1989)
- This book is by no means a dry analysis but contains many anecdotes from the historians about the life of Alexander the Great
- Previous book (Three Historians of Alexander the Great) sold 980 copies
Product details
March 1993Hardback
9780521432641
362 pages
223 × 144 × 25 mm
0.572kg
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Table of Contents
- 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.
