Sources for Alexander the Great : an analysis of Plutarch's Life and Arrian's Anabasis Alexandrou /

Sources for Alexander the Great : an analysis of Plutarch's Life and Arrian's Anabasis Alexandrou /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Hammond, N. G. L. (Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière), 1907-2001
Imprint:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Description:	xvi, 345 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Cambridge classical studies
Subject:	Arrian. -- Anabasis Plutarch. -- Alexander Alexander, -- the Great, -- 356 B.C.-323 B.C. Alexander, -- the Great, -- 356 B.C.-323 B.C Macedonian Expansion (Greece : 359-323 B.C.) Alexander (Plutarch) Anabasis (Arrian) Generals -- Greece -- Biography. Generals. Kings and rulers. Greece -- History -- Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C. Greece -- Kings and rulers -- Biography. Greece. Biography. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1396891

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ISBN:	0521432642
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Prolegomena
Part I. Plutarch's Sources for the Narrative Passages
1. Alexander's origin, boyhood and relations with Philip
2. Balkan campaign, Sack of Thebes and landing in Asia
3. The set battles in Asia
4. Alexander and Darius
5. Phoenicia, Egypt, Mesopotamia and Parthia
6. Conspiracies and Callisthenes
7. Bactria, India and Carmania
8. Persia and Babylonia
9. Attributions and deductions
Part II.
10. Plutarch's reflective passages and Alexander's personality
Part III. Arrian's Sources for the Anabasis Alexandrou
11. The methodology of Arrian
12. From Macedonia to the Tanais
13. From the Tanais to the Indus valley
14. Advance from Nysa and return to the Hydaspes
15. From the Hydaspes to Persepolis
16. The last year of Alexander's life
Part IV.
17. The personality of Arrian and his choice and use of his sources
Index