Saturday, November 2, 2019

Online Translations for the deeds of Alexander the Great

In my preparations for the talk in Zagreb, I used several online translations of the works of Alexander the Great.
  • Plutarch's Life of Alexander, available here, translated by Bernadotte Perrin, Loeb Classical Library (part of the Lexundria project, which has a lot of interesting literature, for example the Muratorian Canon).
  • Marcus Junianus Justinus' Epitoma Historiarum Philippicarum, available here, with the Latin text and the English translation of Watson (1853) and the French by Arnaud-Lindet from 2003 (part of the Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum, including interesting people of the Middle Ages and modern times ... though with many broken links).
I also downloaded Arrian ($2.99) for the Kindle from the Delphi Classics people. In the end however, this all would have been less than helpful without two great books on Alexander the Great, both by two Canadians:

  • Quintus Curtius Rufus, The History of Alexander, translated by John Yardley, introduction and notes by Waldemar Heckel, in: Penguin Classics, London (Penguin Books), revised edition 2001 (translation), 2004 (bibliography).
  • Waldemar Heckel, John C. Yardley, Alexander the Great: Historical Sources in Translation, Oxford (Blackwell Publishing) 2004.
Because of how Reinhart Koselleck interpreted Altdorfer's painting Alexander-Schlacht, I ended up also looking into Niccolo Machiavelli, and his works are largely available through the online library of the Liberty Fund (including the smaller writings in four volumes). 

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