TY - BOOK ID - 46281066 TI - The historiography of Alexander the Great AU - Nawotka, Krzysztof Dariusz AU - Rollinger, Robert AU - Wiesehöfer, Josef AU - Wojciechowska, Agnieszka PY - 2018 SN - 9783447111645 344711164X PB - Wiesbaden Harrassowitz Verlag DB - UniCat KW - Historiography KW - Historical criticism KW - History KW - Authorship KW - Criticism KW - Alexander, KW - Alejandro, KW - Alekjhāṇḍara, KW - Aleksandar, KW - Aleksander, KW - Aleksandr, KW - Alekʻsandre, KW - Aleksandros bar Filipos, KW - Aleksandŭr, Makedonski, KW - Alessandro, KW - Alexander KW - Alexandre, KW - Alexandros KW - Alexandros, KW - Alexandros, Megalos, KW - Alexandru, KW - Alexantros, KW - Aleksandŭr, KW - Александър, KW - Iskandar, KW - Maḳdonya, Aleksandros bar Filipos, KW - Makedonski, Aleksandŭr, KW - Македонски, Александър, KW - Megalexandros, KW - Megas Alexandros, KW - Nagy Sándor, KW - Sikandar, KW - Iskender, KW - Μέγας Ἀλέξανδρος, KW - Ἀλέξανδρος, KW - Ἀλέξανδρος KW - אלכסנדר בן פיליפוס, KW - אלכסנדר, KW - اسكندر كبير KW - اسکندر اعظم KW - سکندراعظم KW - Sources. KW - Generals KW - Congresses. KW - Sources KW - Greece KW - Kings and rulers UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:46281066 AB - This volume tries to tackle the most serious problem facing modern Alexander the Great studies: that of inadequate sources. Its principal interest is in surviving ancient continuous accounts (Diodorus, Curtius Rufus, Plutarch, Arrian, and Justin), which are at least three hundred years younger than Alexander and in many ways one-sided in their Greek bias, often promoting the view of Alexander within the narrow bounds of a Western conqueror. The papers in this volume deconstruct these accounts and search for sources used by their authors, principally in narrative of eye-witnesses and other authors of the first generation after Alexander, including his court historian Callisthenes and his companions Onesicritus, Aristobulus, and Ptolemy. They search for fragments of ancient literary works known from papyri and for shadowy accounts created on the Persian side like the “mercenaries’ source”. Some papers look into propaganda patterns of the age of Alexander and their connections with clichés of Egyptian literature. Some investigate a parallel tradition on the last will of Alexander, enshrined in I Maccabees, and best known from the Alexander Romance. Finally, papers in this volume examine post-classical rendition of Alexander: Jewish from the Talmud to Josippon and Byzantine, composed of separate textual traditions of various ancient authors, with Plutarch taking pride of place ER -