Cities of Alexander the Great
by
P. M. Fraser
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0198150067
ISBN-13
9780198150060
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Clarendon Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 18th, 1996
Print length
274 Pages
Weight
480 grams
Dimensions
22.20 x 14.50 x 2.30 cms
Product Classification:
European historyAncient history: to c 500 CE
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Alexandria in Egypt is just one of the many "Alexandrias" - ancient cities traditionally founded by Alexander the Great. This book unravels the fascinating labyrinth behind this tradition - with its origins in a political pamphlet and a romantic novel.
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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