Late Antique Historiography

Last days of Alexander

Title(s):
  • Last days of Alexander
  • De morte testamentoque Alexandri Magni liber
    (De morte testamentoque Alexandri Magni liber, One book about the death and testament of Alexander the Great)
Author:
Period covered:
323 B.C.
Language:
Latin
State of Preservation:
Full
Genre:
  • Secular history (classicizing history)
  • Novel
Remarks:
The work may be by the same author as the Metz Epitome. It translates an original Greek text, which may go back to the age of the Diadochs.
Edition - Translation:
  • P.H. Thomas (1960) Incerti auctoris Epitoma rerum gestarum Alexandri Magni, cum libro De morte testamentoque Alexandri (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana). Leipzig.
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Bibliography:
  • P.L. Schmidt (1989) 'Pseudo-Historie'. In: Restauration und Erneuerung: Die lateinische Literatur von 284 bis 374 n. Chr., ed. R. Herzog (Handbuch der lateinischen Literatur der Antike, 8.5). Munich: 212-217.