Alexandria in Egypt is just one of many "Alexandrias"--ancient cities traditionally thought of as having been founded by Alexander the Great. In this book, one of the world's leading experts on the period unravels this fascinating tradition, explaining how it originated in a tendentious political pamphlet of the third century BC, which in turn originated in Ptolemaic Alexandria in the context of the development of the earliest version of the Alexander Romance. His work will force historians to alter radically their overall assessment of Alexander's achievement, arguing that he founded far fewer cities than usually supposed.
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"For scholars and advanced students, this is an important contribution to Alexander studies."--Choice
"Fraser brings [the book] the same academic rigor and keen understanding of historical sources that he did to his earlier three-volume study of Ptolemaic Alexandria...Essential reading...includes useful academic tools for further study."--History
"Fraser's authoritative study is of immense value for dispelling one of the central myths associated with the great conqueror."--Religious Studies Review
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WE shall be concerned in this opening chapter, not with the cities attested by the Alexander-historians as having been founded by Alexander in the course of his campaigns but with the lists of cities named as Alexandrias in (a) the Epitome of Stephanus of Byzantium's (b) the earliest surviving Greek and associated versions (henceforth called the a-tradition) of the Alexander-Romance, properly called the Life of Alexander of Macedon, and (c) the lists found in Alexandrian World-Chronicles and Annals of the Imperial period. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
geographical evidence, geographical tradition, century tic, thirteen cities Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hindu Kush, Caspian Gates, Persian Gulf, Spasinou Charax, Paschal Chronicle, Las Bela, Alexandria Eschate, Julius Valerius, Alexandria Oxiana, Lake Zarah, Vieille Route, Alexandria Ariana, Lashkari Bazar, Alexandria Troas, Asia Minor, Isidore of Charax, Persian Empire, Will of Alexander, Curtius Rufus, Indian Caucasus, Indian Ocean, Seleucus Nicator, Syriac Romance, Aurel Stein, Old City of Kandahar New!
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WE shall be concerned in this opening chapter, not with the cities attested by the Alexander-historians as having been founded by Alexander in the course of his campaigns but with the lists of cities named as Alexandrias in (a) the Epitome of Stephanus of Byzantium's (b) the earliest surviving Greek and associated versions (henceforth called the a-tradition) of the Alexander-Romance, properly called the Life of Alexander of Macedon, and (c) the lists found in Alexandrian World-Chronicles and Annals of the Imperial period. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
geographical evidence, geographical tradition, century tic, thirteen cities Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hindu Kush, Caspian Gates, Persian Gulf, Spasinou Charax, Paschal Chronicle, Las Bela, Alexandria Eschate, Julius Valerius, Alexandria Oxiana, Lake Zarah, Vieille Route, Alexandria Ariana, Lashkari Bazar, Alexandria Troas, Asia Minor, Isidore of Charax, Persian Empire, Will of Alexander, Curtius Rufus, Indian Caucasus, Indian Ocean, Seleucus Nicator, Syriac Romance, Aurel Stein, Old City of Kandahar New!
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- The Tradition of the Minor Greek Geographers by A. Diller on page 4
- Parthian Stations by Isadore of Charax on page 88
- The Roman Empire by Robert N. Schwartz on page 11
- The Greeks in Bactria and India by W. W. Tarn in Front Matter
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- Alexander: The Ambiguity of Greatness by Guy MacLean Rogers in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Into the Land of Bones: Alexander the Great in Afghanistan (Hellenistic Culture and Society) by Frank L. Holt in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Thundering Zeus: The Making of Hellenistic Bactria (Hellenistic Culture and Society) by Frank L. Holt on page 27, and Back Matter
- A History of the Classical Greek World, 478 - 323 BC (Blackwell History of the Ancient World) by P. J. Rhodes on page 383, and Back Matter
- A History of the Classical Greek World, 478 - 323 BC (Blackwell History of the Ancient World) by P. J. Rhodes on page 383, and Back Matter
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