De rebus Alexandri Magni (Aristobulus)

De rebus Alexandri Magni (Graece Τὰ κατ' Ἀλέξανδρον) fuit opus ab Aristobulo Cassandrensi scriptum, hodie deperditum, de rebus ab Alexandro Macedoni gestis et de terris ab eo visis. Multa ex hoc opere sumpsit Arrianus ad Anabasin Alexandri contextandam. Fragmenta fere sexaginta ex opere Aristobuli nobis servantur.

Alexandri Magni imago ab eruditis Pyrgoteli, regis ipsius sculptori, adscripta, et fortasse circa annum 325 facta

Hic index fragmentorum ex editione Felicis Jacoby trahitur:

• FGrHist 139 F 1: de opere suo: Pseudo-Lucianus, Macrobii 22
• 2: de Timoclea: Plutarchus, Non posse 1093C; Plutarchus, De mulierum virtute 259D
• 3: de oratoribus Atheniensibus: Plutarchus, Vita Demosthenis 23.4-6
• 4: de numero militum expeditionis Asiaticae: Plutarchus, De Alexandri Magni fortuna aut virtute 327D
• 5: de proelio ad Granicum commisso: Plutarchus, Vita Alexandri 16
• 6: de Mileto: Deipnosophistarum epitome 43d
• 7: de nodo Gordiano: Arrianus, Anabasis Alexandri 2.3; Plutarchus, Vita Alexandri 18
• 8: de Alexandro iuxta Cydnum fluvium aegrotante: Arrianus, Anabasis Alexandri 2.4.7
• 9: de Sardanapalo: Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 530a; Strabo, Geographica 14.5.9; 2.5.2-4
• 10: de mulieribus familiae Achaemenidarum captis et consolatis: Arrianus, Anabasis Alexandri 2.12.3-6
• 11: de consilio Parmenionis: Plutarchus, Vita Alexandri 21
• 12: de situ Tyri: Menander, De epideict. 2.1
• 13-15: de visitatione oraculi Ammonis Sivae: Arrianus, Anabasis Alexandri 3.3-4
• 16: de loco proelii ad Gaugamelam: Arrianus, Anabasis Alexandri 6.11.5
• 17: de proelio ad Gaugamelam: Arrianus, Anabasis Alexandri 3.11.3-7
• 18: de nomine Susorum: Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 513f
• 19: de Hyrcania: Strabo, Geographica 11.7.2
• 20: de Oxo flumine: Strabo, Geographica 11.7.3
• 21: Ptolemaeum Aristobulumque Alexandri cum Thalestride Amazonum regina amores fictas esse scripsisse: Plutarchus, Vita Alexandri 46; Arrianus, Anabasis Alexandri 7.13.1-2
• 22: de Philota: Arrianus, Anabasis Alexandri 3.26.1
• 23: de "Caucaso" vel montibus mediae Asiae; de pistaciis et "silphio": Arrianus, Anabasis Alexandri 3.28.5-7; cf. Strabo, Geographica 15.2.8-9 ex Eratosthene
• 24: de Spitamene capto: Arrianus, Anabasis Alexandri 3.30.5
• 25: de Iaxarte flumine: Arrianus, Anabasis Alexandri 3.30.7
• 26: de urbibus Sogdianae captis: Arrianus, Anabasis Alexandri 4.3.5
• 27: de pugna contra Scythas: Arrianus, Anabasis Alexandri 4.6.1-2
• 28: de Polytimeto flumine: Strabo, Geographica 11.11.5; Arrianus, Anabasis Alexandri 4.6.6
• 29: de cena Maracandis data ubi Alexander Clitum nigrum interfecit: Arrianus, Anabasis Alexandri 4.8.9
• 30: de conspiratione Hermolai: Arrianus, Anabasis Alexandri 4.13.5
• 31: de participatione Callisthenis: Arrianus, Anabasis Alexandri 4.14.1
• 32: de Callisthene anecdoton: Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 434d, cf.
• 33: de Callisthene captivo mortuo: Arrianus, Anabasis Alexandri 4.14.3
• 34: de pontone Indi fluminis: Arrianus, Anabasis Alexandri 5.7.1
• 35: de climate Indiae: Strabo, Geographica 15.1.17-19
• 36: de Acesine flumine: Strabo, Geographica 15.1.21
• 37: de arbore fructus mellitos ferente: Strabo, Geographica 15.1.21
• 38: de serpentibus Indiae: Strabo, Geographica 15.1.45, cf. Arrianus, Anabasis Alexandri 6.1.2-6; Nearchus, Navigatio FGrHist 133 F 20
• 39: de victu e mare Rubro ad Nilum allato: Strabo, Geographica 17.2.5
• 40: de feris Indiae: Plutarchus, Pro nobilitate 19
• 41: de gymnosophistis regni Taxilae: Strabo, Geographica 15.1.61
• 42: de moribus Taxilae: Strabo, Geographica 15.1.62
• 43: de pugna cum filio Pori: Arrianus, Anabasis Alexandri 5.14.3
• 44 (cf. T 4): Lucianus, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit 12
• 45: de Poro rege: Arrianus, Anabasis Alexandri 5.20.2
• 46: de Alexandro apud Mallos vulnerato: Plutarchus, De Alexandri Magni fortuna aut virtute 341C
• 47: de Dioxippo anecdoton: Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 251a
• 48: de divisione Indi fluminis: Strabo, Geographica 15.1.33
• 49: de deserto Gedrosiae: Arrianus, Anabasis Alexandri 6.22.4-6.26.7; Strabo, Geographica 15.2.5-7
• 50: comissationem in Carmania neque ab Aristobulo neque a Ptolemaeo narratam: Arrianus, Anabasis Alexandri 6.28.2-4
• 51: de sepulcro Cyri regis: Arrianus, Anabasis Alexandri 6.29.4-11; Strabo, Geographica 15.3.7
• 52: de nuptiis Macedonum et Persarum Susis in urbe celebratis: Arrianus, Anabasis Alexandri 7.4.4
• 53: Ptolemaeum Aristobulumque nihil de legatione Romanorum dixisse: Arrianus, Anabasis Alexandri 7.15.6
• 54: de Chaldaeis et haruspicibus; de Apollodoro Amphipolitano: Arrianus, Anabasis Alexandri 7.16.1-7.18.5
• 55: res in Babylone anno 323 a.C.n. gestis: Arrianus, Anabasis Alexandri 7.19.3-7.22.5
• 56: de fluminibus Babyloniae: Strabo, Geographica 16.1.9-11, cf. Arrianus, Anabasis Alexandri 7.20.1 (sine nomine Aristobuli)
• 57: de Gerrhaeis: Strabo, Geographica 16.3.3
• 58: de homine qui in thronum regium sedit: Arrianus, Anabasis Alexandri 7.24.1-3
• 59: de mortifero Alexandri morbo: Plutarchus, Vita Alexandri 75
• 60: Ptolemaeum Aristobulumque de morte Alexandri nihil, quod in Ephemeridibus non reperiatur, dixisse: Arrianus, Anabasis Alexandri 7.26.3
• 61: de die mortis Alexandri: Arrianus, Anabasis Alexandri 7.28.1
• 62: de potationibus Alexandri: Arrianus, Anabasis Alexandri 7.29.3
• 63 (falsum): Pseudo-Plutarchus, De fluviis 14.3
• Libro XV Geographicorum Strabonis plura fragmenta huius operis, nomine auctoris omissis et hac ratione a Jacoby exclusa, a Gulielmo Tarn reperta sunt toponymorum gratia; e.g. "Hypanis" loci "Hyphasis" Str. Geog. 15.1.17. Vide etiam Str. Geog. 15.1.29 de simiis Indiae, fortasse ex Aristobulo, unde et Clitarchus in Historiis Alexandri rem sumpserit.

Bibliographia

Editiones fragmentorum

• 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. 94-113 (vide pp. 466-485 versionis archive.org) (Graece, Latine)
• Robertus Geier, Alexandri M. historiarum scriptores aetate suppares (Lipsiae: Gebauer, 1844) pp. 27-73 (Graece, Latine) Textus
• Ianus Gerardus Hulleman, ed., Ptolemaei Eordaei, Aristobuli Cassandrensis et Charetis Mytilenaei reliquiae. Traiecti ad Rhenum: Van Dorp & Heringa, 1844 Textus apud archive.org (Graece)
• Felix Jacoby, Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker (Lugduni Batavorum: Brill, 1923- ) no. 139
• Frances Pownall, ed., "Aristoboulos of Kassandreia (139)" (2013) apud Ian Worthington et al., edd., Jacoby Online vel BNJ (situs venalis)
• C. A. Robinson Jr, Alexander the Great (Novi Eboraci, 1947) pp. 205-243 (Anglice)

Eruditio

• Manuel Albaladejo Vivero, "Aristobulus of Cassandreia: An Engineer at the Court of Alexander the Great" in Eva Myrdal, ed., South Asian Archaeology and Art 2014 Papers Presented at the Twenty-Second International Conference of the European Association for South Asian Archaeology and Art, New Delhi (Novi Dellii: Dev Publishers, 2020) pp. 99-114
• E. Badian, recensio operis Pearson (1960) in Gnomon vol. 33 (1961) pp. 660-667; reimpressa in E. Badian, Studies in Greek and Roman history (Oxoniae: Blackwell, 1964) pp. 250-261, vide pp. 255-256
• Elizabeth Baynham, "The ancient evidence for Alexander the Great" in J. Roisman, ed., Brill's Companion to Alexander the Great (Lugduni Batavorum: Brill, 2003) pp. 3–29
• A. B. Bosworth, A historical commentary on Arrian’s History of Alexander: voll. 1-2 (Oxonii: Clarendon Press, 1980-1995) vol. 1 pp. 27-30 et alibi
• A. Brian Bosworth, "Aristotle, India and the Alexander Historians" in Topoi. Orient-Occident vol. 3 no. 2 (1993) pp. 407-424
• A. B. Bosworth, E. J. Baynham, edd., Alexander the Great in fact and fiction (Oxonii: Oxford University Press, 2000)
• H. Bretzl, Botanische Forschungen des Alexanderzuges. Lipsiae, 1903
• P. A. Brunt, "Notes on Aristobulus of Cassandria" in Classical quarterly vol. 24 (1974) pp. 65-69 JSTOR
• J. R. Hamilton, "Cleitarchus and Aristobulus" in Historia vol. 10 (1961) pp. 448-458
• J. R. Hamilton, Plutarch: Alexander. A commentary (Oxonii: Clarendon Press, 1969) pp. liv-lv et alibi
• N. G. L. Hammond, Sources for Alexander the Great: an analysis of Plutarch's Life and Arrian's Anabasis Alexandrou (Cantabrigiae: Cambridge University Press, 1993) p. 207 et alibi
• Felix Jacoby, Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker (Lugduni Batavorum: Brill, 1923- ) vol. 2 Kommentar (1930) pp. 508-525
• Angela Moretti, "Introduzione ad Aristobulo di Cassandrea" in Virgilio Costa, ed., Tradizione e trasmissione degli storici greci frammentari, ii: Atti del Terzo Workshop Internazionale, Università di Roma Tor Vergata 2011 (Tivoli: Tored, 2012) pp. 209–235
• Lionel Pearson, The lost histories of Alexander the Great (Novi Eboraci, 1960) pp. 150-187
• Frances Pownall, "Arrian’s Propinquity to Ptolemy and Aristobulus: A Reassessment" in Robert Rollinger, Julian Degen, edd., The world of Alexander in perspective: contextualizing Arrian (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2022)
• Eduard Schwartz, "Aristobulos" in Paulys Real-Enzyklopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft edd. G. Wissowa et alii (Stuttgart, 1893-1972 ~ ~)
• Giuseppe Squillace, "Alexander after Alexander: Macedonian propaganda and historical memory in Ptolemy and Aristobulus' writings" in K. R. Moore, ed., Brill's companion to the reception of Alexander the Great (Lugduni Batavorum: Brill, 2018) pp. 119-139
• W. W. Tarn, Alexander the Great. Vol. 2: Sources and studies (Cantabrigiae, 1948) pp. 29-43, 262-265, 335-338 et alibi
• G. Wirth, "Anmerkungen zur Arrianbiographie" in Historia vol. 13 (1964) p. 213 ff.
• Andrea Zambrini, "The historians of Alexander the Great" in John Marincola, ed., A companion to Greek and Roman historiography (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011) pp. 210-220

Nexus interni

• Fontes rerum gestarum Alexandri Magni

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