Alexander the Great (Prof. Stephens; Briant; and more)

It is axiomatic among researchers on Alexander that the sources present a particularly acute problem, given that the surviving authors wrote several centuries after the events, drawing on both primary and secondary sources generally hard to distinguish, and that this corpus of material has shown no significant increase. Nevertheless, one eminent specialist is of the somewhat surprising opinion that Alexander’s reign is quite well documented, and goes so far as to say that: ‘[It] stands out as an oasis of illumination’ (Bosworth 1996: 65). (edited)