The Alexander romance by Ps.-Callisthenes: a historical commentary

371 Pages·2017·2.53 MB·English

by  Nawotka

TheAlexanderRomancebyPs.-Callisthenes
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G.J.Boter(vuUniversityAmsterdam)
EditorialBoard
A.Chaniotis(InstituteforAdvancedStudy,Princeton)
K.M.Coleman(HarvardUniversity)
I.J.F.deJong(UniversityofAmsterdam)
T.Reinhardt(OxfordUniversity)
volume399
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The Alexander Romance
by Ps.-Callisthenes
AHistoricalCommentary
By
Krzysztof Nawotka
leiden | boston
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umo-2012/05/b/hs2/04025
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Title:TheAlexanderromancebyPs.-Callisthenes:ahistoricalcommentary/by
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
ListofIllustrations xi
Abbreviations xii
Introduction 1
1 Author,TitleandDateofComposition 1
2 ContentsoftheAlexanderRomance 6
3 Genre 13
4 Composition 18
5 EgyptianRootsoftheAlexanderRomance 25
6 AlexandertheGreatandtheAlexanderRomance 27
7 LanguageoftheAlexanderRomance 29
8 RecensionsandVersionsoftheAlexanderRomance 30
9 EditorialPrinciples 33
Commentary
BookOne 37
Chapter1 37
Chapter2 41
Chapter3 45
Chapter4 48
Chapter5 56
Chapter6 56
Chapters6/7 58
Chapter7 59
Chapter8 60
Chapter9 61
Chapter10 61
Chapter11 61
Chapter12 63
Chapter13 70
Chapter14 75
Chapter15 76
Chapter16 76
Chapter17 77
vi contents
Chapter18 78
Chapter19 82
Chapter20 83
Chapter21 84
Chapter22 85
Chapter23 85
Chapter24 86
Chapter25 89
Chapter26 90
Chapters27–29 93
Chapter30 93
Chapters31–32 97
Chapter31 97
Chapter32 105
Chapter33 108
Chapter34 112
Chapter35 115
Chapters36–38 118
Chapter36 119
Chapter37 121
Chapter38 121
Chapter39 121
Chapter40 122
Chapter41 123
Chapter42 127
Chapter43 129
Chapter44 130
Chapter45 131
Chapter46 131
Chapter46a 134
Chapter47 141
BookTwo 143
Chapters1–6 143
Chapter1 143
Chapter2 145
Chapter3 151
Chapter4 153
Chapter5 155
Chapter6 158
contents vii
Chapter7 159
Chapter8 161
Chapter9 162
Chapter10 165
Chapter11 167
Chapter12 168
Chapter13 169
Chapter14 170
Chapter15 173
Chapter16 174
Chapter17 175
Chapter18 178
Chapter19 178
Chapter20 181
Chapter21 183
Chapter22 188
Chapters23–44 188
BookThree 189
Chapter1 189
Chapter2 191
Chapter3 193
Chapter4 195
Chapters5and6 199
Chapter5 200
Chapter6 201
Chapter17 201
Chapter18 210
Chapter19 212
Chapter21 214
Chapter22 215
Chapter23 218
Chapter24 219
Chapter25 220
Chapter26 221
Chapter27 223
Chapter28 225
Chapter29 228
Chapter30 228
Chapter31 231
viii contents
Chapter32 240
Chapter33 244
Chapter34 260
Chapter35 265
Bibliography 271
IndexofSources 311
GeneralIndex 341
Acknowledgments
I first took an interest in the Alexander Romance more than a decade ago
whileworkingonmy AlexandertheGreat.Likeeverystudentof Alexander,I
was in desperate search of sources, either new to scholarship or underused,
andsurelythe AlexanderRomancemetthesecondof thesecriteria.Thiswas
beforethefirstvolumeofRichardStoneman’sexcellentcommentaryappeared
in print, and at that time the most usable commentary was Ausfeld’s rather
dated 1907 work. Faced with the complexity of the sources likely consulted
byPs.-Callisthenesontheonehandandtheundueneglectof the Alexander
Romance in modern studies of Alexander the Great on the other, I decided
tomakeaPolishtranslationthe AlexanderRomance,accompaniedbyasmall
commentary,publishedin2010.Thisbookhasgrownoutofit,inadditiontothe
fruitsofseveralsubsequentyearsofresearchandwriting.Inthecourseofmy
studyoftheAlexanderRomanceIbecameawareofthetremendousprogressin
scholarshipafterAusfled,KrollandMerkelbach,duetoaverylargedegreeto
theincessanteffortsofRichardStoneman.Itisthereforemygreatpleasureto
acknowledgehisbooksandpapersasasourceofinspirationforthisvolume,as
wellastothankhimforhisencouragingcommentsonmyworkandthebooks
thathegenerouslysharedwithmeonmorethanoneoccasion.
The research conducted for this book was possible thanks to a generous
grantfromtheNationalScienceCentre,Poland(umo-2012/05/b/hs2/04025).
Thispaidbothforbookspurchasedandformyresearchtrips.Iwouldliketo
acknowledge the major research institutions which allowed me to make use
of their library resources, first of all the University of Oxford for providing
accesstotheSacklerandBodleianlibraries,andtheOrientalInstitute.In2014
I also spent three fruitful months in Providence, ri working in the excellent
librariesof BrownUniversity.IamverygratefultoBrillAcademicPublishers
foracceptingmybookfortheir MnemosyneSupplementsseriesandfortheir
speedyandveryprofessionalhandlingof thepublicationprocess.Mythanks
go primarily to Brill’s anonymous reviewer, to Karen Francis for correcting
my English and to Tessel Jonquière and Giulia Moriconi from their Leiden
office.
Ihavepresentedpapersrelatingtothe AlexanderRomanceatconferences
and public talks in Wrocław, Warsaw, Toruń, Delphi, Innsbruck, Liverpool,
Providence, Obergurgl, Erbil, Kazan, Moscow, St. Petersburg. The necessity
of responding to perceptive questions asked by conference participants and
membersof theaudienceatmytalkshasledmetovastlyimprovethewayI
presentnumerousissuesinthisbook.Papersreadbyscholarsattendingthese
x acknowledgments
conferenceswereagreatsourceof informationandinspiration,especiallyin
matters which used to be, and often still are, beyond my particular field of
expertise.
Finally, I have the pleasant task of thanking all the people with whom I
discussed various issues related to the Alexander Romance and from whose
comments I greatly profited: Prof. Sir Fergus Millar, late Prof. Józef Wolski,
Prof.JohnK.Davies,Prof.AlicjaSzastyńska-Siemion,Dr.ZofiaArchibald,Prof.
GościwitMalinowski,RobinLaneFox.Prof.OryAmitay,Prof.RobertRollinger,
Prof.JosefWieshöfer,Prof.CorinneJouanno,Dr.IvanLadynin,Dr.MicahRoss,
Dr.AgnieszkaWojciechowska.ButIdedicatemymostheartfeltthankstomy
wife,MałgorzataMożdzyńska-Nawotka,whohasovertheyearsprovidedthe
unstintingsupportthathasallowedmetoresearchandwritethisbook.