Alexander the Great
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MonarchX
What surviving contemporary texts can give us more information about Alexander?
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swewing
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The Campaigns of Alexander by Arrian of Nicodemia is based on the work of Ptolemy and is considered the most accurate account.
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Roman historian Quintus Curtius Rufus wrote a ten-volume biography in the first century AD; eight volumes survive.
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Alexander by Theodore Ayrualt Dodge.This guy knows, the tactics, the numbers, the formation and the Scythian. That was Alexanders biggest challenge.
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Arrian and Rufus, as already mentioned. There are, however, many fascinating anecdotes spread throughout the literature of the ancient world about him, especially the centuries immediately following his death when his corpse was on display in the city of Alexandria. One of my favorites is during the visit to the city of the Emperor Augustus: when asked by Alexandria's dignitaries if he wanted to visit the tombs of the early Ptolemaic kings, Augustus replied: "I came here to see kings, not corpses." Thus is perfectly captured the Roman Empire's opinion of the Ptolemaic Dynasty as compared to Alexander!
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