Legends of Alexander the Great 1848857853, 9781848857858
So enquired Alexander the Great of the Brahman sages of India. And how did they reply? ‘By doing what it is impossible f
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Table of contents :
Cover
Half title
Imprint
Contents
Introduction
Abbreviations
Map of Pakistan showing sites visited by Alexander
The Hereford Mappa Mundi
Legends of Alexander the Great
1. Alexander's Letter to Aristotle about India
2. On the Wonders of the East [Letter of Pharasmanes to Hadrian]
3. Excerpt from ‘The Chronicle of George the Monk’
4. Palladius, ‘On the Life of the Brahmans’
5. The Correspondence of Alexander and Dindimus
6. Alexander the Great's Journey to Paradise
Appendix I: Fragmentary Texts from Antiquity
i. Berlin Papyrus 13044: Alexander Interrogates the Gymnosophists
ii. Geneva Papyrus 271: A Cynic Diatribe of Dandamis to Alexander
Appendix Il: Early English Versions of the Legends
i. From the Thornton ‘Life of Alexander’
ii. From ‘Kyng Alisaundre’
iii. From “The Book of Sir John Mandeville’
iv. From the Alliterative ‘Alexander B’
v. From John Gower, Confessio Amantis
vi. From The Upright Lives of the Heathens (1683)
vii. From Gilbert Hay, “The Buik of Alexander’
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Cover
Half title
Imprint
Contents
Introduction
Abbreviations
Map of Pakistan showing sites visited by Alexander
The Hereford Mappa Mundi
Legends of Alexander the Great
1. Alexander's Letter to Aristotle about India
2. On the Wonders of the East [Letter of Pharasmanes to Hadrian]
3. Excerpt from ‘The Chronicle of George the Monk’
4. Palladius, ‘On the Life of the Brahmans’
5. The Correspondence of Alexander and Dindimus
6. Alexander the Great's Journey to Paradise
Appendix I: Fragmentary Texts from Antiquity
i. Berlin Papyrus 13044: Alexander Interrogates the Gymnosophists
ii. Geneva Papyrus 271: A Cynic Diatribe of Dandamis to Alexander
Appendix Il: Early English Versions of the Legends
i. From the Thornton ‘Life of Alexander’
ii. From ‘Kyng Alisaundre’
iii. From “The Book of Sir John Mandeville’
iv. From the Alliterative ‘Alexander B’
v. From John Gower, Confessio Amantis
vi. From The Upright Lives of the Heathens (1683)
vii. From Gilbert Hay, “The Buik of Alexander’
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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