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Article In 1996 a bilingual Greek-Carian inscription was found at Kaunos, in Caria (On Kaunos’ location on the border between Caria and Lycia, cf. MAREK 2006, pp. 80-81), in the harbour area behind the Stoa (On the finding context cf. FREI- MEIER 1997, pp. 3-6). It records a proxeny decree (On proxeny cf. MACK 2015)…

Article A critical estimation of scholarly writings reveals plainly not only the qualitative but also the quantitative differences in the acceptance of the Alexander, even though the available textual sources remained immutable (Narain 1965, 155). The modern scholarships have only a small number of inscriptions, numismatic evidences and random comments from historians that are contemporaneous.…

Article Alexandria in or near Egypt proved the most successful of all real or attributed foundations of Alexander, both as the capital city of the Ptolemies and a centre of arts and commerce. Starting from her research on the Hellenistic vitreous ware in the Sandwich GoldGlass technique, Giulia Cesarin investigates the motive of hunting iconography…

From the eighth century bce, ‘Greeks’ are known to us from texts of the ancient Near East: There appears in Assyrian and Babylonian cuneiform sources, in addition to the place name Yaman (pronounced ‘Yawan’), an ethnic name Yamanaya ¯ (pronounced ‘Yawanaya’) or Yamn ¯ aya (pronounced ‘Yawn ¯ aya’), which does not ¯ refer to…

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…

Article The famous episode from the Alexander Romance concerning Alexander’s flight-apparatus (2.41 = Stoneman 1991: 123), and his realization that the world was in fact round, was used in the High-Middle-Age commentary Tosfot (on 41a) to demonstrate why a statue bearing a globe is not to be treated as mere decoration but rather to be…

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