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The first full critical edition with translation and commentary dedicated to a selection of the letters attributed to Alexander the Great. It brings to wider attention a much-neglected corpus and employs an innovative approach to the matter by exploring the culture behind the action of writing at Alexander's court.
About the author
Giustina Monti is Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies (Greek Culture) at the University of Lincoln. Her main research interests lie in Greek Historiography, and she has published articles on Alexander the Great, Herodotus, and Polybius. She is also the co-editor (with K. Scarlett Kingsley and Tim Rood) of The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography (2022).
Summary
The doubts about the letters mostly come from the fact that the Romance of Alexander is considered a sort of epistolary novel, thus it has been argued that at some point a collection of Alexander’s letters was put together, containing a nucleus of genuine letters, but also expandedwith forgeries.
