Plutarch and Alexander
1955; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 5; Issue: 1-2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1017/s0009838800002500
ISSN1471-6844
Autores Tópico(s)Byzantine Studies and History
ResumoModern scholars have been concerned with the hostility shown to Alexander by the Hellenistic schools of philosophy. Two literary portraits have been distinguished, the Peripatetic and the Stoic, the former deriving from Theophrastus' book on Callisthenes, or starting with this work the Peripatetics worked out a theory of and applied it to Alexander, in order to belittle his achievements. It was a case of giving sophisticated expression to the kind of crude resentment expressed by Demades.
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