ALEXANDER THE GREAT IN BACTRIA AND INDIA NARRATIVE: SOURCES AND HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHYEditura Universității din București - Bucharest University Press, 1 ian. 2025 - 808 pagini This book is not only the attempt at the reconstruction of the military expedition of the army of Alexander the Great in Bactria and India and an analysis of the historical sources, on which our modern image of Alexander’s age is based, but also aims at reconstructing the imago mundi that the ancient Greeks and Macedonians had on the world they conquered. The birth and development of Alexander’s myth are also treated in these pages. |
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ABBREVIATIONS LIST AND EDITIONS | 7 |
INTRODUCTION | 23 |
BACTRIA AND INDIA UNDER THE ACHAEMENID PERSIAN RULE III THE ANCIENT AND MEDIAEVAL NARRATIVE SOURCES ON ALE... | 47 |
THE GREAT | 125 |
Interplay between the Lost Sources and the Preserved Sources about Alexander | 158 |
Part II | 424 |
Termeni și expresii frecvente
4th century B.C. according Achaemenid Afghanistan Alexander of Macedon Alexander Romance Alexander’s army Alexander’s expedition Alexandria Anabasis Anabasis Alexandri ancient Greek apud Pearson 1960 Arachosia Aristobulus Arrian Babylon Bactria Bactria and Sogdiana battle Bessus Bucharest București Callisthenes campaign Casevitz eds Caspian Sea Caucasus cavalry Central Asia Cleitarchus Cleitus command Companion Cavalry conquered conqueror conquest culture Curtius Rufus Cyrus Darius Diodorus East Eastern Iran Egypt episode Eratosthenes esp.pp forces Gaugamela geographical Goukowsky 1981 Greek mercenaries Hellenistic Heracles hero Herodotus Hindukush historians history of Alexander Iaxartes India Indus infantry Iran Iranian Islamic King of kings land Lane Fox legend Macedonian King Macedonian military Maeotis mountain Nearchus North-Western Northern nowadays Onesicritus Oxus Parmenion Paropamissus Parthian Persepolis Philip Philotas Plut.Vita Plutarch probably Pseudo-Callisthenes Ptolemy Q.Curt.Ruf.De Q.Curtius region reign river Roman Sakā satrap Scythians Sogdiana soldiers Spitamenes Strabo Suceveanu 1993 Susa Syr-Darya Tanais troops Vide Pearson 1960 warriors writing written