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2. Personal relationships of Alexander the Great - Wikipedia

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   The episode occasioned an apocryphal exchange that was reported in the sources for the life of Alexander in Pliny's Natural History. Robin Lane Fox traces her legend back to the Roman authors Pliny the Elder, Lucian of Samosata and Aelian's Varia Historia. Campaspe became a generic poetical pseudonym for a man's mistress.

3. Robin Lane Fox - Wikipedia

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   Robin James Lane Fox, FRSL (born 5 October 1946) [1] is an English classicist, ancient historian, and gardening writer known for his works on Alexander the Great. [2] Lane Fox is an Emeritus Fellow of New College, Oxford and Reader in Ancient History, University of Oxford .

4. Alexander the Great - Wikipedia

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   [253] Some modern historians (e.g., Robin Lane Fox) believe not only that Alexander's youthful relationship with Hephaestion was sexual, but also that their sexual contacts may have continued into adulthood, which went against the social norms of at least some Greek cities, such as Athens, [254] [255] though some modern researchers have ...

5. Historiography of Alexander the Great - Wikipedia

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   Life of Alexander (see Parallel Lives) and two orations On the Fortune or the Virtue of Alexander the Great (see Moralia), by the Greek historian and biographer Plutarch of Chaeronea in the second century, based largely on Aristobulus and especially Cleitarchus. Plutarch devotes a great deal of space to Alexander's drive and desire and strives ...

6. Campaspe - Wikipedia

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   Campaspe (/ k æ m ˈ p æ s p iː /; Greek: Καμπάσπη, Kampaspē), or Pancaste (/ p æ ŋ ˈ k æ s t iː /; Greek: Πανκάστη, Pankastē; also Pakate), [1] was a supposed mistress of Alexander the Great and a prominent citizen of Larissa in Thessaly. No Campaspe appears in the five major sources for the life of Alexander and the ...

7. Aornos - Wikipedia

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   Alexander hauled himself up the last rockface on a rope. Alexander cleared the summit, slaying some fugitives (as interpreted by Robin Lane Fox, though inflated by Arrian to a massacre), and erected altars to Athena Nike, Athena of Victory, traces of which were identified by Stein. [2] Alexander was now free to pursue his journey into Punjab.