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	Cleitarchus
		Cleitarchus' own book is now lost, but it was the source of Diodorus of Sicily's Library of world history and the History of Alexander the Great of Macedonia by Curtius Rufus.
		Another aspect of Cleitarchus' work that deserves to be mentioned, is the psychological portrait of Alexander, which is painted in dark shades.
		In Cleitarchus' opinion, the young king was corrupted by his constant good fortune and became an alcoholic, a tyrant, and a murderer.
	www.livius.org /cg-cm/cleitarchus/cleitarchus.htm (624 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 784 (v. 1)
		Aeschines says, that a talent from Cleitarchus was part of the bribe which he alleges that Demosthenes received for procuring the decree in question.
		Cleitarchus appears therefore to have come into the above project of Demosthenes and Callias, to whom he would naturally be opposed ; but he thought it perhaps a point gained if he could get rid of the remnant of Athenian influence in Eretria.
		On this, Cleitarchus and Philistides, the tyrant of Oreus, sent ambassadors to Athens to prevent, if possible, the threatened invasion; arid Aeschines, at whose house the envoys were entertained, appears to have supported their cause in the assembly.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/0793.html (952 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 784 (v. 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Aeschines says, that a talent from Cleitarchus was part of the bribe which he alleges that Demosthenes received for procuring the decree in question.
		Cleitarchus appears therefore to have come into the above project of Demosthenes and Callias, to whom he would naturally be opposed ; but he thought it perhaps a point gained if he could get rid of the remnant of Athenian influence in Eretria.
		On this, Cleitarchus and Philistides, the tyrant of Oreus, sent ambassadors to Athens to prevent, if possible, the threatened invasion; arid Aeschines, at whose house the envoys were entertained, appears to have supported their cause in the assembly.
	ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/0793.html (952 words)

	Bosworth: In Search of Cleitarchus
		The main point, however, is that Cleitarchus could be seen as the historian to imitate, and he was a natural choice as source of Diodorus' narrative of the Alexander period.
		Cleitarchus certainly characterised the Theban banquets as a gastronomic disaster, but the negative emphasis may be due to Athenaeus, paving the way for his joke about the Persians at Plataea.
		Cleitarchus' probably brief allusion to the Roman embassy could be quietly omitted, as might the tradition that Ptolemy was a half-brother of Alexander.
	www.dur.ac.uk /Classics/histos/1997/bosworth.html (5934 words)

	Persepolis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The locality described by Diodorus after Cleitarchus corresponds in important particulars with Takhti Jamshid, for example, in being supported by the mountain on the east.
		Cleitarchus speaks of her as having been the cause for the burning of the palace at Persepolis.
		Cleitarchus, who can scarcely have visited the place himself, with his usual recklessness of statement, confounded the tombs behind the palaces with those of Nakshi Rustam; indeed he appears to imagine that all the royal sepulchres were at the same place.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Persepolis (2204 words)

	The 'vulgate' sources on Alexander the Great
		Curtius also copies Cleitarchus' mistakes, although he is not an uncritical imitator: he has read other sources (Ptolemy, Aristobulus) and sometimes corrects his model.
		Cleitarchus may have started his research after Ptolemy, one of Alexander's generals and the future king of Egypt, had ordered Alexander's dead body to be brought to Egypt; the History of Alexander was finished between 310 and 301.
		These stories all go back to eyewitnesses; a man like the court historian Callisthenes would not write about the mass crucifixion at Tyre, and the history of Ptolemy -which was written from a commander's point of view- would not deal with the difficulties that the soldiers experienced in the Hindu Kush.
	www.livius.org /aj-al/alexander/alexander_z1a.html (1605 words)

	Histories/ Alexander the Great
		Diodorus and Curtius are, respectively, the earliest writers on Alexander, having written their accounts in the first century A.D. However, their works are riddled with inaccuracies and folk tales.
		This man was thought to have been a contemporary of Alexander and a reliable source for many years, but writers such as Cicero and Strabo believed him to be dishonest.
		Much of the writings about Alexander that were based on the works of Cleitarchus are no longer deemed reliable by most historians.
	www.dragonrest.net /histories/alexander.html (4820 words)

	Alexander the Great's forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		It led to the suggestion that the pirate tale is actually a lost fragment of Cleitarchus.
		I can see more reasons why this is a credible suggestion: for example, Cleitarchus was an early citizen of Alexandria, so Karl’s association of the tale with that city is particularly apt for Cleitarchus and also Cicero is the source for several other known fragments of Cleitarchus.
		Although this might sound at first like an impossible objective, since the last copy of Cleitarchus was probably destroyed over a thousand years ago, there is in fact a good prospect of getting a long way with this.
	www.pothos.org /forum/showmessage.asp?messageID=23278 (404 words)

	PERSEPOLIS - Encyclopedia Britannica - PERSEPOLIS - JCSM's Study Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Ctesias must certainly have known of it, and it is possible that he may have named it simply HEpoat, after the people, as is undoubtedly done by certain writers of a somewhat later date.' But whether the city really bore the name of the people and the country is another question.
		The form Persepolis (with a play on 1rEpacs, destruction) appears first in Cleitarchus, one of the earliest, but unfortunately one of the most imaginative annalists of the exploits of Alexander.
		This statement is not made in Ctesias (or rather in the extracts of Photius) about Darius II., which is probably accidental; in the case of Sogdianus, who as a usurper was not deemed worthy of honourable burial, there is a good reason for the omission.
	jcsm.org /StudyCenter/Encyclopedia_Britannica/PER_PIG/PERSEPOLIS.html (1829 words)

	Authors of Alexander histories
		The 'other' account of the story of Callisthenes being denied a royal kiss for not performing proskynesis in Arrian 4.12.3-5 is likely to have been derived from Chares.
		Cleitarchus wrote in Egypt under the patronage of Ptolemy, perhaps as early as 310, perhaps as late as 280, but was not himself a participant in the expedition.
		He was perhaps the most influential of all the early writers, and Plutarch, Diodorus and Quintus Curtius all made use of his work.
	www.anchist.mq.edu.au /222/authors.htm (1238 words)

	Moloch - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Later commentators have compared these accounts with similar ones from Greek and Latin sources speaking of the offering of children by fire as sacrifices in the Punic city of Carthage.
		Cleitarchus, Diodorus Siculus and Plutarch all mention burning of children as an offering to Cronus or Saturn, that is to Ba‘al Hammon, the chief god of Carthage.
		Paul G. Mosca in his thesis (described below) translates Cleitarchus' paraphrase of a scholia to Plato's Republic as:
	open-encyclopedia.com /Moloch (3121 words)

	Arrian of Nicomedia
		It seems to me that Ptolemy and Aristobulus are the most trustworthy writers on Alexander's conquests, because the latter shared Alexander's campaigns, and the former -Ptolemy- in addition to this advantage, was himself a king, and it is more disgraceful for a king to tell lies than for anybody else.
		Like Cleitarchus, Arrian tried to give some sort of assessment of Alexander, but his opinion is the opposite of Cleitarchus', who had presented the Macedonian king as a young prince corrupted by his constant success.
		It is a tribute to the quality of these works and their author, that modern scholarship usually follows Arrian, who personifies the 'good' tradition, and merely adds details from the authors of the 'vulgate' tradition of Cleitarchus.
	www.livius.org /arl-arz/arrian/arrian.html (1897 words)

	Thais biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		According to Cleitarchus' report, she made Alexander burn down Persepolis on a whim.
		Thaïs is also an opera by Jules Massenet that was inspired by the historical figure.
		A transcript of Cleitarchus' account of the burning of Persepolis
	thais.biography.ms (132 words)

	Alexander Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Borza, E. N., ‘Cleitarchus and Diodorus 17’, PACA 11 (1968) 25-45.
		—, ‘Cleitarchus and Diodorus 17’, in K. Kinzl (ed.) Greece and the Ancient Mediterranean in History and Prehistory.
		Hamilton, J. R., ‘Cleitarchus and Diodorus 17’, in K. Kinzl (ed.) Greece and the Ancient Mediterranean in History and Prehistory.
	hum.ucalgary.ca /wheckel/Alexbibl/sources.htm (3293 words)

	JamesL4242/The Amazons and the Antichrist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		He blames Cleitarchus for the Alexander-tryst story and criticizes those historians who repeat it.
		When considering the transmission of Alexander material into patristic and medieval texts, this acquires significance, as patristic and medieval authors could not (generally) draw directly upon Greek texts; rather, they drew upon Latin Alexander histories such as Quintus Curtius and Justin, both of whom were widely read in the Middle Ages (Cary 16-17).
		For medieval and patristic authors, then, the tale of Alexander's tryst with the Amazon queen was inherited without the critical material present in Greek accounts of Alexander.
	www.sp.uconn.edu /~jbl00001/Amazons_paper.htm (8222 words)

	Cleitarchus Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
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