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Alexander the Great: Letters: A Selection

Alexander the Great: Letters: A Selection

Monti, Giustina
Monti, Giustina

Hardcover

Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts

Letters & EssaysAncient GreeceGreek History

ISBN10: 1800348622
ISBN13: 9781800348622
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: May 1 2023
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.70 Depth: 7.90
Language: English

This book offers the first critical edition with an English translation and commentary on some of the letters attributed to Alexander and transmitted by mainly Plutarch and Arrian. The vast majority of the texts examined here are constituted by Alexander's 'private' letters, but the book also includes some letters regarded as official. Thirty-four letters are included, although there are many more letters allegedly written by Alexander, which are definitely forgeries. The doubts about the letters mostly come from the fact that the Romance of Alexander is considered a sort of epistolary novel, thus it has been argued that at some point a collection of Alexander's letters was put together, containing a nucleus of genuine letters, but also expanded with forgeries. This volume attempts to isolate the letters which are regarded as authentic by the majority of modern scholars, with each letter followed by an outline of previous scholarly discussion of its authenticity.

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