The cities founded by Alexander the Great are an essential part of his overall achievements. The problems concerning them, however, are many - and some incapable of solution. This book is the first to unravel thoroughly the 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.
The author explores the ramification of this reconstruction from a lost Greek original through to the Persian and Arab tradition, and concludes that the number of cities claiming to be Alexander's as recorded in ancient sources needs to be considerably reduced. The book also includes some more general new
considerations regarding Alexander's policies and achievements.
- ISBN10 1280763884
- ISBN13 9781280763885
- Publish Date 1 January 1996
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 17 February 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Oxford University Press, USA
- Format eBook
- Pages 259
- Language English