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.
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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 analyse 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.
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This review is from: Sources for Alexander the Great: An Analysis of Plutarch's 'Life' and Arrian's 'Anabasis Alexandrou' (Cambridge Classical Studies) (Paperback)
This review by one of Alexander's best biographers of primary sources and top-tier modern commentaries (such as from Bosworth, Hammond, Badian, Tarn, etc.) is excellent, and I would recommend it to any student of Alexander. However, if you're looking for an introductory text, or just some light reading on the subject, steer clear.
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In the introduction, covering the two Lives which he knew would attract both interest and criticism more than any other Life, Plutarch warned his readers that he was writing 'not Histories but Lives' of Alexander and of Caesar. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Royal Journal, River Granicus, Battle of Issus, Common Peace, Marsyas Macedon, The Ancient World, Life of Alexander, Persian Gulf, Anabasis Alexandrou, Journal of Alexander, Caspian Sea, Chares of Mitylene, The Alexander Romance, Tomb of Cyrus, A's Journal, Antigonus Monophthalmus, Olympic Games, Black Sea, Royal Brigade of Hypaspists, Heracleides Lembus, Loeb Greek, Pompeius Trogus, School of Pages, Stephanus Byzantius, Straits of Gibraltar New!
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In the introduction, covering the two Lives which he knew would attract both interest and criticism more than any other Life, Plutarch warned his readers that he was writing 'not Histories but Lives' of Alexander and of Caesar. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
own interjections, mercenary cavalry, narrative tenses, ooo infantry, infinitive construction, mounted archers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Royal Journal, River Granicus, Battle of Issus, Common Peace, Marsyas Macedon, The Ancient World, Life of Alexander, Persian Gulf, Anabasis Alexandrou, Journal of Alexander, Caspian Sea, Chares of Mitylene, The Alexander Romance, Tomb of Cyrus, A's Journal, Antigonus Monophthalmus, Olympic Games, Black Sea, Royal Brigade of Hypaspists, Heracleides Lembus, Loeb Greek, Pompeius Trogus, School of Pages, Stephanus Byzantius, Straits of Gibraltar New!
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- Alexander The Great (Pitt Paperback; 94) by J.R. Hamilton in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Three Historians of Alexander the Great (Cambridge Classical Studies) by N. G. L. Hammond in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Alexander and the Greeks by Victor Ehrenberg on page 195
- Alexander the Great (The Norton library) by Ulrich Wilcken in Front Matter
- Alexander the Great (A Ladybird Book) by L. Du Garde Peach in Front Matter
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- Alexander the Great: A Reader by Ian Worthington on page 5
- The Arabs in Antiquity: Their History from the Assyrians to the Umayyads (NIAS Monograph Series) by Jan Retso in Back Matter
- The Genius of Alexander the Great by N. G. L. Hammond in Back Matter
- Alexander: Destiny and Myth by Claude Mossé in Back Matter
- Alexander the Great (Lancaster Pamphlets in Ancient History) by RICHARD STONEMAN on page 100
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