Sources for Alexander the Great: An Analysis of Plutarch's 'Life' and Arrian's 'Anabasis Alexandrou' (Cambridge Classical Studies (Paperback)) (Paperback)
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Short Description for Sources for Alexander the Great This 1993 book attempts to analyse and evaluate in detail the sources of information that the ancient writers Plutarch and Arrian drew on.
Full description- Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published: 13 August 2007
- Format: Paperback 364 pages
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- Categories: Biography: Historical, Political & Military | Historiography | European History | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Classical History / Classical Civilisation
- ISBN 13: 9780521714716 ISBN 10: 0521714710
- Sales rank: 696,773
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Full description for Sources for Alexander the Great
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.
