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or a letter to anyone he has sent

2006-08-09 01:17:31 · 7 answers · asked by MAB W 1 in Arts & Humanities History

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Here's a list of primary sources for Alexander.

The ancient sources for Alexander's life are, from the perspective of ancient history, relatively numerous. Alexander himself left only a few inscriptions and some letter-fragments of dubious authenticity, but a large number of his contemporaries wrote full accounts. These included his court historian Callisthenes, his general Ptolemy (later Ptolemy I of Egypt), and a camp engineer Aristoboulus. Another early and influential account was penned by Cleitarchus. Unfortunately, these works were lost. Instead, the modern historian must rely on authors who used these and other early sources. The five main accounts are by Arrian, Curtius, Mestrius Plutarch, Diodorus, and Justin. Much is recounted incidentally in other authors, especially including Strabo.

The "problem of the sources" is the main concern (and chief delight) of Alexander-historians. In effect, each presents a different "Alexander," with details to suit. Arrian presents a flattering portrait, Curtius a darker one. Plutarch can't resist a good story, light or dark. All include a considerable level of fantasy, prompting the historian Strabo (2.1.9) to remark, "All who wrote about Alexander preferred the marvellous to the true." Nevertheless, the sources tell us much, and leave much to our interpretation and imagination.

Surviving classical period histories:

The Roman historian Arrian of Nicomedia wrote Anabasis Alexandri or "The Campaigns of Alexander" in Greek.
Another Roman historian Quintus Curtius Rufus wrote Historiae Alexandri Magni, a biography of Alexander the Great in Latin in ten books, of which the last eight survive.
The Bibliotheca historia ("Historical Library") of the Greek historian Diodorus Siculus, at least four books cover the conquests of Alexander and the actions of his successors, or the Diadochi.
The Epitome of the Philippic History of Pompeius Trogus by Justin, which contains many provable errors of fact and is highly compressed.
The Greek historian/biographer Plutarch of Chaeronea wrote a Life of Alexander and two orations On the Fortune or the Virtue of Alexander the Great

2006-08-09 02:46:02 · answer #1 · answered by samanthajanecaroline 6 · 2 0

If you read "Macedonian language" just consider that the so called "Macedonian is a slavic idiomatic language with many similarities with Bulgarian and serbian languages.
Slaves appeared in Balkans ca 6th-7th century AD.
Alexandros o Megas or Alexander the Greate lived about 1000 years before the appearance of Slaves and never neither he or any of his subordinades ever spoke any slavic language

How is it possible someone to have any letter of Alexander the Great and in "Macedonian language" indeed ?????
Something very "shifty" is going on here.. Do they have a full organised history faulcification team and do they try to make mass production of "historical documents"? SHAME.....

2006-08-10 09:49:06 · answer #2 · answered by UncleGeorge 4 · 1 0

Alexander The Macedonian (not greek) our great king...
The legend that will never die...
I have lot of materials to give you but most of them are or our macedonian language .
see:
http://www.historyofmacedonia.org/
http://realitymacedonia.org.mk

2006-08-10 05:18:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 2

voukefalas was alexanders horse..

2006-08-10 02:39:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

What exactly is the question?

2006-08-09 11:32:16 · answer #5 · answered by koukouvayia 2 · 1 0

huh?

2006-08-09 08:43:59 · answer #6 · answered by femaledrillsergeant 2 · 1 0

......And your question is......? Ya Womble

2006-08-09 08:30:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

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