Itinerarium Alexandri

The Itinerarium Alexandri is a Worded in Latin Late Antiquity historiographical work.

The itinerary was written by an anonymous author around the year 340 and is dedicated to Emperor Constantius II. It deals with the campaigns of Alexander the Great against the Achaemenid Empire and the Emperor Trajan's campaigns against the Parthians. However, the text breaks in the only surviving manuscript from the 9th or 10th century, which was discovered in the early 19th century by Angelo Mai in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, from before the presentation of the Partherkriegs Trajan. In representing the Alexanderzugs the author has mainly based on Arrian. However, it also contains other additives ( like the Alexander novel) and is sometimes quite flawed.

Noteworthy is the intention of the author of the tracked station. So the writing is clearly linked with the Persian war, which broke out again in the time of Constantius. Apparently the author was keen to inspire Constantius by the military successes of Alexander and Trajan, to be victorious in the battle against the Sassanids. The author is unknown, but Robin Lane Fox has been theorized that it could be explained by Flavius ​​Polemius, the consul of 338, which is perhaps identical with Julius Valerius Polemius.

Editions and translations

  • Iolo Davies: Alexander's itinerary ( Itinerarium Alexandri ). An English translation. In: The Ancient History Bulletin. Vol 12, 1998, ISSN 0835-3638, pp. 29-54.
  • Raffaella Tabacco (ed.): Itinerarium Alexandri ( = Università degli Studi di Torino, Fondo di studi - Parini Chirio Filologia Nuova Series, Vol 1. . ). Testo, apparato critico introduzione, traduzione e commento. Olschki, Florence 2000, ISBN 88-222-4920-8.
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