Clitarchus

Clitarchus (Graece Κλείταρχος; interdum "Colophonius" dictus e patris origine; interdum "Alexandrinus", sed et "Aeolensis"), rerum gestarum scriptor Graecus saeculi 3 a.C.n. ineuntis, fuit filius Dinonis Colophonii qui de Imperio Persarum scripserat. Clitarchus in aula Ptolemaei, Alexandri satrapae et Aegypti regis, vixisse censetur. Clitarchus fuit auctor operis seu de vita Alexandri Macedonis seu de rebus a sectatoribus Alexandri gestis et visis. Huius operis fragmenta fere 30 nominatim supersunt; censetur et alias res ab historicis Alexandri Magni narratis ex opere Clitarchi haustas.

Opera

• Historiae Alexandri (Περὶ Ἀλέξανδρον ἱστορίαι)

Bibliographia

• Ernst Badian, "The Date of Clitarchus" in Proceedings of the African classical associations vol. 8 (1965) pp. 5–11; reimpressum in Ernst Badian, Collected papers on Alexander the Great (Londinii: Routledge, 2012) pp. 113-119
• Helmut Berve, Das Alexanderreich auf prosopographischer Grundlage (Monaci: Beck, 1926) ii.40 (vol. 2 pp. 422-423)
• A. B. Bosworth, "In search of Cleitarchus" in Histos vol. 1 (1997) pp. 211-224
• Truesdell S. Brown, "Clitarchus" in American Journal of Philology vol. 71 (1950) pp. 134-155 JSTOR
• Chrysanthos S. Chrysanthou, "P. Oxy. LXXI 4808: ‘bios’, character, and literary criticism" in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik vol. 193 (2015) pp. 25-38
• Robin Lane Fox, "P.Oxy. 4808 and Historians" in Krzysztof Nawotka et al., edd., The Historiography of Alexander the Great (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2018) pp. 91-104 Textus
• Paul Goukowsky, "Clitarque seul? Remarques sur les sources du livre XVII de Diodore de Sicile" in Revue des études anciennes vol. 71 (1969) pp. 320-337
• J. R. Hamilton, "Cleitarchus and Aristobulus" in Historia vol. 10 (1961) pp. 448-458 JSTOR
• R. A. Hazzard, Imagination of a monarchy: studies in Ptolemaic propaganda (Toronti, 2000) pp. 7-17
• Felix Jacoby, Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker (Lugduni Batavorum: Brill, 1923- ) no. 137. Kommentar (1930) pp. 484-498
• Fridericus Dübner, Carolus Mullerus, edd., Arriani Anabasis et Indica; reliqua Arriani et scriptores de rebus Alexandri Magni; Pseudo-Callisthenis historia fabulosa (Parisiis: Didot, 1846) Textus fasc. 2 pp. 74-85 (vide pp. 446-457 versionis archive.org)
• Luisa Prandi, "New evidence for the dating of Cleitarchus (P.Oxy. LXXII.4808)?" in Histos vol. 6 (2012) pp. 15-26
• "Zur Datierung Kleitarchs" in Fritz Schachermeyr, Alexander in Babylon und die Reichsordnung nach seinem Tode (Sitzungsberichte der Oesterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, philosophisch-historische Klasse vol. 268 pars 3. Vindobonae: Oesterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1970) pp. 210-224; exemplar mutuabile
• Rüdiger Schmitt, "Cleitarchus" in Encyclopaedia Iranica Online (Anglice)
• W. W. Tarn, Alexander the Great. Vol. 2: Sources and studies (Cantabrigiae, 1948) pp. 5-43

Nexus externi

• Cleitarchus apud Livius.org
• Karl Soundy, "Dating Kleitarchos"