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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Stoneman, Richard. Book of Alexander the Great : A Life of the Conqueror. London : I.B. Tauris, ©2012 |
Named Person: | Alexander, the Great; Pseudo-Callisthenes.; Alexander, the Great |
Material Type: | Biography, Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Pseudo-Callisthenes.; Richard Stoneman |
ISBN: | 9780857721136 0857721135 1848852932 1848852940 9781848852938 9781848852945 |
OCLC Number: | 796383069 |
Language Note: | Translated from the Greek. |
Description: | 1 online resource (208 pages) |
Contents: | Introduction; The Book of Alexander the Great; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
Other Titles: | Historia Alexandri Magni. |
Responsibility: | translated and introduced by Richard Stoneman. |
Abstract:
The Book of Alexander the Great - or the Phyllada - has for three centuries been the most popular account of Alexander's career in modern Greece. After circulating in manuscript form, it was first published in 1680 in Venice, and has been continuously in print in Greek ever since. The Phyllada broadly follows the structure of the ancient Alexander Romance, but is much better organised and is a work of popular literature reflecting the immense interest that the Conqueror has generated since earliest times. Numerous folktales and local legends kept his story alive, and many works about Alexander.
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