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	Alexander Romance - WCD (Wiki Classical Dictionary) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The ‘ancestor tales’ that claimed Alexander as the ancestor of medieval Bactrian kings derived from the Romance, leading to the unhistorical traditions that were later described to Marco Polo in the 13th century.
		Much of the Alexander Romance is pure fantasy; examples include: the conceit that Alexander’s father was Nectanebo, the last native Egyptian Pharaoh (1.1-11); the discovery of the Water of Life (2.39); Alexander’s ascent to the heavens in a basket (2.40); meetings with Sirens and Centaurs (2.41).
		Alexander’s meeting with the Amazons (3.25-6) was obviously culled from the story in Onesicritus, which was refuted by Lysimachus before 281 BC (cf.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /wcd/Alexander_Romance (543 words)

	Alexander Romance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alexander is shown as generous, loyal and courageous: he is a protective and giving figure, the emblem of unification of the noblemen under one active and strong voice.
		However, unlike the indigenous legend of King Arthur and the related romances dealing with the Matter of Britain, the Alexander Romance neither confines itself to the history and culture of Western Europe, nor is it a story situated in the Middle Ages.
		Alexander A, which is sometimes also referred to as The Romance of Alexander or Alexander of Macedon, is a fragment of 1247 lines and written in alliterative verse.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexander_Romance (1435 words)

	Britannica India: Did you Know?
		The chief source of all Alexander romance literature was a folk epic written in Greek by a Hellenized Egyptian in Alexandria during the 2nd century AD.
		It portrayed Alexander as a national messianic hero, the natural son of an Egyptian wizard-king by the wife of Philip II of Macedon.
		Alexander romance literature declined in the late 12th century, and, with the revival of classical scholarship during the Renaissance, historical accounts displaced the Alexander romances.
	www.britannicaindia.com /duk_det_inside.asp?art_id=230 (557 words)

	edwardsr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The Syriac and Ethiopian Christian legends of Alexander based on the Alexander Romance of Pseudo-Callisthenes reflect the problematic and contradictory view of Alexander among the early Christians of the middle east.
		Alexander's association with two horns and with the building of the gate against Gog and Magog occurs much earlier than the Quran and persists in the beliefs of all three of these religions.
		The denial of Alexander's identity as Dhul-Qarnain is the denial of a common heritage shared by the cultures which shape the modern world--both in the east and the west.
	www.apaclassics.org /AnnualMeeting/02mtg/abstracts/edwardsr.html (545 words)

	Skanda: The Alexander Romance in India
		Alexander was a prince, and Kumāra, which means a prince in Sanskrit, is a synonym of ‘Skanda.’ He was a warlord and leader of an army, and Senānī which means the leader of an army is again a name of Skanda.
		Alexander’s mother Olympias who was steeped in the religious mysteries of a semi-Greek land, in the dark cults and orgiastic practices, spells and incantations of primitive religion, made no secret of her conviction that he was the son of god.
		Alexander came into contact with the tradition that the Greek god Dionysus was the founder of the city and was the first to conquer India.
	murugan.org /research/gopalapillai.htm (9887 words)

	myth
		Alexander's personality was adapted according to the use each nation or tribe made of the conqueror's fame.
		In French, the Romance is known as "la légende" or "la Romance d'Alexandre" and Alexander is one of the gallant knights of Charlemagne, in English it is "the Romance of Alexander", in German "Alexandersage".
		This paper, however, is limited to the history and myth connected with the "last dwelling" of Alexander: his mausoleum, whose splendour and display of wealth were the admiration of historians and travellers for centuries, and still excite the popular imagination.
	www.greece.org /alexandria/tomb2/myth.htm (572 words)

	BBC - History - Alexander the Great: Hunting for a New Past
		Alexander himself died at Babylon in June 323 BC, at the age of only 32.
		That is another way of saying that Alexander is probably the most famous of the few individuals in human history whose bright light has shot across the firmament to mark the end of one era and the beginning of another.
		Alexander's hunt for what was in the end unattainable by him in his lifetime provides us with the chance, and the motive, to conduct a new hunt to try to capture the daunting immensity of his achievement.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/ancient/greeks/alexander_the_great_06.shtml (410 words)

	Skanda-Iskandar and the Alexander Romance: History and the Diffusion of Mythic Archetypes
		Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) was depicted in Greek coinage as ram-headed, (Arabic: Zul-Qarnain 'Lord of Two Horns') indicating that he was regarded as a living deity while yet a man. Called in Arabic al-Sikandar or Iskandar, in pan-Indian context the Sikandar name and legend are equally associated with Indian wargod Skanda.
		An entire genre of epic literature arose known as the Alexander Romance which was immensely popular across much of Asia and which in turn had an impact upon geographically-distant oral and literary traditions such as that of the Quest for the Holy Grail of Western tradition.
		Alexander, Iskandar and Skanda survive in human memory as literary traditions which may be profitably analysed and understood as parallel or intertwining streams of literature.
	xlweb.com /heritage/murukan/speakers/harrigan.htm (543 words)

	Is The Source Of Qur'an 18:60-65 The Alexander Romances?
		The primary reason for associating the Qur'anic story with Alexander is the identification of the fish in Qur'an 18:61 and 18:63 with the dried fish in certain versions of the Alexander stories, which comes to life when Alexander's cook washes it in the "spring of life".
		The origin of the fish episode, according to Friedländer, is a passage from the sermon on Alexander by Jacob of Serugh dated to early part of the sixth century; the dating is based on Jacob of Serugh's death in 521 CE.
		Alexander's cook is made into two different characters, both the servant of Moses of Qur'an 18:61-65 and the mysterious servant of God of Qur'an 18:65.
	www.islamic-awareness.org /Quran/Sources/BBalex.html (4257 words)

	ALEXANDER THE GREAT: GENERAL SOURCES
		The prologue treats of Alexander's general status among medieval legends; part one: the signs of his destiny; part two: Alexander and learning; part three: the conquest of the world; part four: Alexander and other worlds; part five: Alexander and the prophecies; part six: the aura and the shadows of Alexander.
		Stemming from Pseudo-Callisthenes' Greek Alexander romance, the tribes of Gog and Magog are described in Genesis 10:2, Ezekiel 38: 1-3; and Revelation 20: 7-8.
		Discusses the history of the iconography of the image of Alexander's flight via griffin-car from the ninth through 16th centuries, when widespread skepticism towards the historicity of the Alexander romances caused the popularity of the image to decrease.
	www.lib.rochester.edu /camelot/Alexander/alexgen.htm (892 words)

	Alexander the Great - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 332 BC–331 BC, Alexander was welcomed as a liberator in Egypt and was pronounced the son of Zeus by Egyptian priests of the god Ammon at the Oracle of the god at the Siwa Oasis in the Libyan desert.
		A mural in Pompeii, depicting the marriage of Alexander to Barsine (Stateira) in 324 BC.
		Alexander sometimes is identified in Persian and Arabic traditions sources as Dhul-Qarnayn, Arabic for the "Two-Horned One", possibly a reference to the appearance of a horn-headed figure that appears on coins minted during his rule and later imitated in ancient Middle Eastern coinage.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexander_the_Great (9547 words)

	Bucephalus - by E. Baynham
		The evidence in general on Alexander's youth is scanty and since Plutarch is our main source we need to be cautious, since it suited his interests and his methodology to present the young Alexander with the characteristics of the adult.
		However, the same tradition was represented in the Ethiopic Alexander Romance with a further elaboration: the hero and his horse were not only the same age but conceived at exactly the same moment - and from the same agent.
		Alexander's imitatio of his ancestor is notable and may have been genuine, rather than simply the propaganda of his successors; two well known examples are his visit to Siwah because Heracles and Perseus went there, see Arrian, Anab., 3.
	www.1stmuse.com /alex3/bucephalus2.html (3384 words)

	The Legendary Journeys of Alexander the Great
		According to surviving historical texts, Alexander the Great (born 356 BC; died 323 BC) was the son and heir of Philip II of Macedon.
		Alexander's relentless energy and apparently limitless ambition drove him to explore remote parts of the world inhabited by strange peoples and monsters, investigate the wonders of the heavens and the depths of the sea, and seek out the secrets of true wisdom and immortal life.
		It is these legendary journeys that are recounted in the Romance of Alexander that originated as a Greek text, but soon proved popular in innumerable versions and translations that were spawned across western Europe, the Middle East and India.
	www.bl.uk /onlinegallery/features/mythical/alexander.html (260 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Alexander the Great's Journey to Paradise is the last and also the latest of Stoneman's six primary texts.
		After this, Alexander's death comes as neither surprise nor shame: it represents the reconciliation of the hero with the dictates of the Almighty, which the pagan hero could never achieve.
		Students of the historical Alexander, most of whom seldom go beyond Pseudo-Callisthenes, will find in Legends of Alexander a pleasant sample of the very important effects of Alexander on the imagination of subsequent generations, and--through the Hereford Mappa Mundi, for instance--a suggestion of the practical consequences of those effects.
	www.infomotions.com /serials/bmmr/bmmr-9507-banchich-legends.txt (1382 words)

	pothos.org - All about Alexander the Great (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Alexander reigned for nineteen years from Alexandria, then he defeated Darius, marched around the globe and ended up at the seacoast of Sunland.
		Alexander drove those Unclean Peoples to the north and he sealed the entrance to the north by building bronze gates between the two mountains commonly known as Ubera Aquilonis - 'Breasts of the North'.
		In any case: Alexander the Great is always portrayed as the savior and protector of mankind who exiled the Unclean Peoples from the civilised world.
	www.pothos.org /alexander.asp?ParaID=28 (553 words)

	Texts on the Web (Alexander the Great on the Web) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Jona Lendering assembles selections from Diodorus on: the battle of Chaeronea, the accession of Darius III, the death of Philip, the sack of Thebes, Alexander's army, the battle of Issus, the destruction of Persepolis, Dioxippus and Coragus, Alexander's decree on the exiles, Alexander and the Chaldaeans, Alexander's last plans, the revolt of the Macedonian veterans.
		Aelian, VA 7.8 on Alexander's reaction to Hephaestion's death from Iolaus: An anthology of Friendship by Edward Carpenter (1908).
		Demosthenes Exhorts Athenians to Resist Alexander from "On the Treaty With Alexander" (trans.
	www.isidore-of-seville.com /alexander/9.html (951 words)

	Printed Translations (Alexander the Great on the Web) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Alexander the Great: The Brief Life and Towering Exploits of History's Greatest Conqueror, As Told By His Original Biographers with an introduction by Michael Wood and edited by Tania Gergel.
		Alexander and the Greeks by Victor Ehrenberg (1982).
		The Greek Alexander Romance, translated by Richard Stoneman.
	www.isidore-of-seville.com /alexander/10.html (818 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 95.08.06
		xix), makes it "the first Alexander text to be translated into a medieval language." At the other end of the temporal scale, by the early 4th century a Greek version of the Letter to Aristotle was in circulation, as demonstrated by its interpolation into recension A of the Alexander Romance.
		This is a particularly interesting piece, which uses Alexander's conversation with the Brahman Dandamis [sic] as recounted in a work by Arrian [!], the student of Epectitus and Alexander historian, presented to Palladius by an unnamed scholar of Egyptian Thebes, whose adventure in the Orient Palladius recounts.
		Students of the historical Alexander, most of whom seldom go beyond Pseudo-Callisthenes, will find in Legends of Alexander a pleasant sample of the very important effects of Alexander on the imagination of subsequent generations, and -- through the Hereford Mappa Mundi, for instance -- a suggestion of the practical consequences of those effects.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1995/95.08.06.html (1822 words)

	Annotated Bibliography
		Bunt chronicles the presence of the Alexander Romance within the British tradition, allowing for a comparison with the other traditions for similarities in context and emphasis.
		A translation of the pseudo-Callisthenes version of the Alexander Romance that focuses primarily on his military and travel exploits.
		Primarily in a narrative format, Alexander's accounts of his travels are often in the form of correspondence.
	www.southwestern.edu /ACS/latin/team18/alex21.htm (918 words)

	Alexander the Great -- Siu Generis -Revisited-
		Alexander mentions the name of his own god, Zeus, but he swears with the others to ‘the god father of all humanity’.
		When Alexander made his famous prayer at the feast for ‘harmony [homonoia] and fellowship [koinonia] of rule between Macedonians and Persians’; he meant precisely what he said, and no more — nor is there much doubt which race he meant to be senior partner.”31
		His assessment of Alexander is one-sided, exaggerated, and supported by quotations taken out of context from a wide variety of sources, most without citation.
	www.helleniccomserve.com /alexander_revisited.html (3253 words)

	parisad: little research about Alexander and Atlantis...:)
		This is a legend, off course: but since Alexander was Aristotle's student, and Aristotle was Plato's disciple, Alexander could really have looked for Atlantis in his travelling...He wanted to see new things, new people and new "worlds" and he believed in ancient tales.
		He keeps insisting how Alexander was so in love with Roxanne - without probably being able to exchange a single word with her (no common language!) And dear Plutarch is just a tad nasty towards Hephaistion - in terms of not really giving him his worth.
		Alexander had such a strong urge of conquering that he probably was not satisfied by limiting himself to land above the sea level.
	parisad.livejournal.com /11078.html (889 words)

	R. Thomson - Khorenatsi's 'History of the Armenians' - 4c
		The similes involving Odysseus' slaughtering Penelope's suitors and the struggle of Lapitha and the Centaurs (II 63) are taken from the Alexander Romance.
		III 21 Valentinian's anger; that of Iollas at being struck by Alexander (§262).
		III 26 Shapuh's siege of Tigranakert; that of Tyr by Alexander (§100).
	members.tripod.com /~Groznijat/armen/thomson_4c.html (3817 words)

	Alexander the Great, extant sources - WCD (Wiki Classical Dictionary) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		There are generally reckoned to be five major extant sources for this history of Alexander the Great.
		As Alexander crops up almost everywhere in ancient literature, the limits of this list are difficult to define:
		Scattered incidents from Alexander's life or the life of his contemporaries appear in these and other collections.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /wcd/Alexander_the_Great,_extant_sources (301 words)

	The Greek Alexander Romance: Birth and Youth
		Alexander is born, and when half-grown he murders Nectanebo, who knows why
		Alexander campaigns in Greece, Italy, and elsewhere and invades Asia; geographical accuracy is not a problem here
		Alexander pushes Nectanebus to his death and carries his body to the palace
	www.southwestern.edu /~carlg/Latin_Web/alexbirth.html (505 words)

	Romance at Alexander Homestead in St. Augustine, Florida
		As Bonnie Alexander peeked in the window of the old uninhabitable house on Sevilla Street in one of the quiet residential neighborhoods of St. Augustine ten years ago, she had a vision.
		This is a perfectly appointed bed and breakfast, with four of the most inviting and romantic bedrooms that hint of lavender sachets and pale hues of vintage opulence.
		The Alexander Homestead is located at 14 Sevilla Street in St. Augustine.
	www.getawayweddings.com /articles/article-details.asp?ID=116 (481 words)

	The Greek Alexander Romance - Anonymous - Penguin Group (USA)
		If the Hebrew tradition saw him as a preacher and prophet, to the Persians he was alternately a true king and an arch-Satan, while in modern Greece he is revered more as a wise man than as a conqueror.
		Nowadays the Romance should be read not only as a literary masterpiece but also as fast-paced and wonderfully exuberant entertainment.
		The Greek Alexander Romance: The Life and Deeds of Alexander of Macedon
	us.penguingroup.com /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780140445602,00.html (115 words)

	Cult Movies: The Greek Alexander Romance (Penguin Classics) - $11.90
		A very nice and easy book to read.The Alexander Romance is based on myth,legends and part of history.It is really uр to the reader, who knows a lot of Alexander's histоrу to decipher which is truth and whiсh is myth.
		This is a very interesting Greek romance, vеrу famous and popular.
		Alexander of Macedon 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography
	www.cultmoviesstore.com /tvr30313430343435363039.html (142 words)

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