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Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great

 
What surviving contemporary texts can give us more information about Alexander?
 
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MonarchX
03/30/09
What surviving contemporary texts can give us more information about Alexander?
           
 
swewing
03/30/09
replied to: MonarchX
The Campaigns of Alexander by Arrian of Nicodemia is based on the work of Ptolemy and is considered the most accurate account.
           
 
duckncover
03/30/09
replied to: swewing
Roman historian Quintus Curtius Rufus wrote a ten-volume biography in the first century AD; eight volumes survive.