Pietro Zaccaria

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The fragments of Alexander’s Ephemerides reconsidered: new evidence from Plutarch’s corpus digital

Anno: 2022

The article puts forward new arguments for attributing more passages from Plutarch (Quaest. conv. VIII 9, 3, 734b; Alex. 23, 3-6 and 8; Alex. fort. II 6, 338d) to the Ephemerides of Alexander the Great than those already collected by Jacoby in FGrHist 117...

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Rediscovering Theopompos: Neglected Evidence of the Meropis digital

di Pietro Zaccaria

Anno: 2016

The so-called Meropis is one of the miraculous stories inserted by Theopompos into the Thaumasia, which in its turn was a digression in the historical narrative of the Philippika. A re-examination of the evidence shows that one fragment, preserved in a scholion to the Anabasis of Xenophon, has never been taken into account by the editors...

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