[BOOK][B] The History of Alexander's Battles: Historia de Preliis, the J1 Version
RT Pritchard - 1992 - books.google.com
RT Pritchard
1992•books.google.comEvery one interested in the ramifications of the Alexander Romance, falsely attributed to
Callisthenes of Olynthus, will readily acknowledge his considerable debt to the great
pioneering work of J. Zacher, A. Ausfeld and F. Pfister, and the subsequent labours of A.
Hilka, R. Merkelbach and DJA Ross. Thanks to these and other scholars, we have today a
much clearer picture of the origin, nature and subsequent development of the Alexander
Romance, for all its confusion, distortion and fantasy. Merkelbach in his monumental Die …
Callisthenes of Olynthus, will readily acknowledge his considerable debt to the great
pioneering work of J. Zacher, A. Ausfeld and F. Pfister, and the subsequent labours of A.
Hilka, R. Merkelbach and DJA Ross. Thanks to these and other scholars, we have today a
much clearer picture of the origin, nature and subsequent development of the Alexander
Romance, for all its confusion, distortion and fantasy. Merkelbach in his monumental Die …
Every one interested in the ramifications of the Alexander Romance, falsely attributed to Callisthenes of Olynthus, will readily acknowledge his considerable debt to the great pioneering work of J. Zacher, A. Ausfeld and F. Pfister, and the subsequent labours of A. Hilka, R. Merkelbach and DJA Ross. Thanks to these and other scholars, we have today a much clearer picture of the origin, nature and subsequent development of the Alexander Romance, for all its confusion, distortion and fantasy.
Merkelbach in his monumental Die Quellen des griechischen Alexanderromans has clearly shown that the Romance is indebted more to literary than to oral sources. He specifies two in particular. Firstly, use was made of an Alexander historian dependent on the Cleitarchus tradition, but paying less attention to historical reality than the Vulgate account of Diodorus, Curtius and Justin. The result is a richly coloured romance, somewhat on the lines of the historiography of Duris and Phylarchus.
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