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1. The most famous of Alexander’s historians was Callisthenes until
the two fell out and the king put the historian/educator to death. See
especially Pearson 1960: 22–49.
2. See Pearson 1960, especially on Onesicritus, Nearchus, Aristobulus,
Ptolemy, and Cleitarchus: 83–242. See also Badian 1971: 37–40,
among many others.
3. Every Alexander historian writes of the problems which developed
between Alexander and his Macedonians, especially after his policy of
“orientalization” was launched. For a convenient recap of the growing
rift, see O’Brien 1992: 101–210.
4. Examples are a legion, but see especially Anson 2004: 150–152,
using Nepos ( Eum. 7.2) where Eumenes even claimed to have had dreams
of Alexander and consequently erected an “Alexander tent” to impress
his army, from which orders were issued in Alexander’s name.
5. Pseudo-Callisthenes Alexander Romance passim.
6. From medieval France to the Islamic world, legends of Alexander
fl ourished long after the vestiges of his political legacy were gone. See
Stoneman 1991 passim for examples.
7. Jacoby 1923–ii B, especially Theopompus, Philippika and Flowers
1994: 98–135.
8. Of the major early historians Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon
all mention Macedonia, with especially the fi rst two providing brief
excursions into its history and myth as background for their particular
interests (e.g., Hdt. 8.136 ff.; Thuc. 2.100 ff.). None, however, provides an
extended account of Macedonian history.
9. The extant accounts of Diodorus, Quintus Curtius, Arrian, Plutarch,
and Justin provide the bulk of our knowledge today.
10. I will use the term Argead because I think it the term the Macedonians
used to describe the dynasty which ruled Macedon from the seventh
to the fourth centuries know of its use in Egypt in the third century to refer
to the dynasty, and Athenaeus (659f) uses the word for what appear to
have been dynastic rites. Based upon the purported Argive origins of the
Macedonian royal house and Temenus, the eponymous link between the
Greek polis and Macedonia (Hdt.8. 137), both Hammond 1989a and Hatzopoulos
1996 are among the strongest proponents of the label Temenid.
11. Although some of the following authors have written on the topic
more than once, see especially: Granier 1931; P. de Francisci 1948:ii,
345–495; Aymard 1950; Briant 1973; Lock 1977; Errington1978; Anson
1985 and 2008; Adams 1986; Hammond 1989a; Borza 1990; and Hatzopoulos
1996.
12. Granier 1931: 4–28.