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Our knowledge of Alexander the Great is derived from the widely varying accounts of five authors who wrote three and more centuries after his death. The value of each account can be determined in detail only by discovering the source from which it drew, section by section, whether from a contemporary document, a memoir by a companion of Alexander, a hostile critique or a romanticizing narrative.Hammond, N. G. L. is the author of 'Three Historians of Alexander the Great ', published 2008 under ISBN 9780521036535 and ISBN 0521036534.
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