RATIONES RERUM 26: Articolo Giorgia Oggiano

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Rationes Rerum 26

GIORGIA OGGIANO
Frammenti di Timeo nelle Storie di Clitarco di Alessandria

The aim of this article is to re-examine the influence of Timaios of Tauromenion (FGrHist 566) on Kleitarchos of Alexandria’s Histories of Alexander the Great (FGrHist 137), offering new arguments to lower Kleitarchos’ traditional chronolog y. The comparison with the Roman Age tradition will explain the origin of the pairing, not infrequent in the accounts of Alexander the Great, between the Asiatic East and the West, as it arose from a tradition which had its founder in Timaios and which Kleitarchos plausibly chose to continue. As a consequence, by reading Timaios, Kleitarchos would have expanded the narrative horizon of the historiography on Alexander, including details relevant to Western Greeks as well, thus reflecting the literary trends of the Early Hellenistic Age.