The Metz Epitome is a late antiquity

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 summary of earlier historical fragments and covers the conquest

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s of Alexander the great  between Hyrcania

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 and southern India

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The sources of the anonymous

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 author

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 have much in common with the historian Cleitarchus

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Cleitarchus or Clitarchus , one of the historians of Alexander the Great, son of the historian Dinon of Colophon, was possibly a native of Egypt, or at least spent a considerable time at the court of Ptolemy Lagus.Quintilian Cleitarchus or Clitarchus , one of the historians of Alexander the Great,...

, through the writings of Diodorus Siculus

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 and Quintus Curtius Rufus

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. Non-Cleitarchan elements in the text

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 seem to reflect a certain Hebraic view concerning Alexander.http://www.ruor.uottawa.ca/en/handle/10393/10107http://books.google.com.au/books?id=-qYOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA10&lpg=PA10&dq=metz+epitome&source=bl&ots=cQTs3T4EWj&sig=Q5yipiJDpL8oysbHZcsGPzujD7U&hl=en&ei=dPoBTcKCK8jorAfKjLGRDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CBcQ6AEwATgK#v=onepage&q=metz%20epitome&f=false

The epitome paints a unique portrait of Alexander and includes some information not found elsewhere but in view of its late authorship and the few additional historical fact it offers, the value of the Metz Epitome lies in its interpretation of Alexander's career rather than as a source for it.http://www.ruor.uottawa.ca/en/handle/10393/10107