CITIES OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT by P. M. Fraser ( 9780198150060 )

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CITIES OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT

By:

P. M. Fraser

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0198150067

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Publisher:

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 July, 1996

Pages:

274

Description:

Alexandria in Egypt is just one of the many "Alexandrias" - ancient cities traditionally founded by Alexander the Great. This book is the first to unravel the fascinating labyrinth behind this tradition - with its origins in a political pamphlet and a romantic novel. The book will force historians to alter radically their overall assessment of Alexander's achievements, arguing that far fewer cities were founded by Alexander than hitherto supposed.

Synopsis:

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.

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Clarendon Press

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