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Archaeological site of Pella, Greece, Alexander's birthplace. Alexander III was born in Pella, the capital of the Kingdom of Macedon, [10] on the sixth day of the ancient Greek month of Hekatombaion, which probably corresponds to 20 July 356 BC (although the exact date is uncertain).
The Ephemerides of Alexander were journals describing Alexander's daily activities. Mentioned by ancient writers, but only fragments survive today. [6] [7] Suda writes that one of the works of Strattis of Olynthus was called "On the ephemerides of Alexander" and were five books. [8]
Cantor, Norman F. - Alexander the Great: journey to the end of the earth. Cantor, Norman F. - Antiquity: from the birth of Sumerian civilization to the fall of the Roman Empire. Capponi, Niccolo - The victory of the west: the great Christian-Muslim clash at the battle of Lepanto. Carroll, Michael - An island in Greece: on the shores of Skopelos.
It was out of this mixed heritage of both Greek and Near Eastern book collections that the idea for the Library of Alexandria was born. [17] [3] Following the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC, there was a power grab for his empire among his top-ranking officers.
He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before dying, aged just 32. Alexander the Great’s legacy has given him ...
Vasco de Lucena presenting his translation of Rufus' Histories of Alexander the Great to Charles the Bold, c. 1470 The Historiae survives in 123 codices, or bound manuscripts, all deriving from an original in the second half of the 9th century, Paris, BnF lat. 5716, which was copied during the Carolingian Renaissance for a certain Count Conrad by the scribe Haimo in the Loire region.
The Alexander Romance is an account of the life and exploits of Alexander the Great. Of uncertain authorship, it has been described as "antiquity's most successful novel". [1] The Romance describes Alexander the Great from his birth, to his succession of the throne of Macedon, his conquests including that of the Persian Empire, and
Peter Morris Green (22 December 1924 – 16 September 2024) was an English classical scholar and novelist noted for his works on the Greco-Persian Wars, Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age of ancient history, generally regarded as spanning the era from the death of Alexander in 323 BC up to either the date of the Battle of Actium or the death of Augustus in 14 AD.
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