L'image d'Alexandre le Grand chez Trogue Pompée / Justin. Analyse de la composition historique des Histoires philippiques (livres 11 et 12)

• Main Author: Horn, Nelson (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Published: Pessac Ausonius Éditions 2021
• Series: PrimaLun@ 9
• Subjects: Classical texts; History; Trogus; Iustinus; Historiae philippicae; Alexander the Great; Macedonia; Tyrant; Historical composition; Hystoriography; Augustus; Antonius; Summus imperator; Virtus; Darios; Persia; Achaemenid empire; Hellenistic period Principate; Epitome; Cleitarcos; Hegesias
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The Historiae philippicae by Iustinus are a quite difficult work because they are actually written by two authors: in the first century BC, Trogus, a Gallic historian, wrote a now lost universal history; several centuries later, Iustinus wrote an epitome from his text, the one we know now. Books 11...