Database: Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris (CHAP)

Title(s):

Metz epitome of the life of Alexander the Great
Alexandri Magni Macedonis Epitoma rerum gestarum
(Alexandri Magni Macedonis epitoma rerum gestarum, Summary of the actions of Alexander the Great from Macedonia)

Author:

Anonymous (Metz epitome of the life of Alexander the Great)

Period covered:

330-327 B.C.

Language:

Latin

State of Preservation:

Full

Genre:

Remarks:

Schmidt (1989: 216) suggests Julian's Persian campaign as a context. If by the same author, De morte testamentoque Alexandri Magni liber could have been book 2 of a single work.

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.

Fragments:

Users:

Sources:

Curtius Rufus

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.