Alexander Of Macedon

Peter Green

The death of my dedicatee last year and the subsequent final publication of his Collected Papers on Alexander the Great offer a natural occasion for a review of  the way this book has survived the relentless flood of Alexander scholarship since 1991. When, in  deliberate and conscious imitation of T. S. Eliot, I appended the words il miglior fabbro to my  dedication, the general reac- tion was that I clearly could have had no notion what Eliot in fact  owed to Ezra Pound’s wholesale editing of The Waste Land. On the contrary: I knew every detail of  it, knew too how pa- tiently, and thoroughly, Ernst Badian had gone over so much of Alexander of  Macedon’s first draft. This, obviously, would never have worked had I not previously found the  articles in which Ernst set out his findings – and which had impelled me to con- tact him in the  first place – both methodologically impeccable and historically more convincing than any other  general thesis I had encountered during the course of my researches. Re- reading those articles  recently, some forty years after complet- ing the final draft of my biography, and recognizing how  much it owes to them, I found myself marveling at their remorseless logic, their bleak  acknowledgment of the Hobbesian Realien governing human nature, their commonsensical parsing of  every ancient testimony in context, with concession to ancient or modern prejudice only as a historical factor to be taken into account when formulating a judgment.

جهت استعلام قيمت و سفارش چاپ اين محصول لطفا با انتشارات گنج حضور تماس حاصل فرماييد