Alexander the Great in India

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The most influential account of the career of Alexander the Great was penned by Cleitarchus the son of Deinon, a Greek writing in Alexandria in the decades after Alexander’s death. Most of the surviving ancient texts on Alexander were more or less based upon his work, but every single copy of the original was discarded or destroyed in antiquity. To what extent might it be possible to reconstruct it from the secondary writings? My new book (now available from Internet bookstores: Amazon etc.) argues that a considerable degree of reconstruction is feasible and demonstrates the point by presenting a full reconstruction of Cleitarchus’ version of Alexander’s campaigns in India, the first time that this has been done.

There is a page dedicated to the new book on my website at  www.alexanderstomb.com/main/cleitarchus/index.html including a sample chapter as a downloadable pdf, which contains my reconstruction of Book 12 of Cleitarchus.

Best wishes,

Andrew