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Assander, I'm sure you'll never read this, it being some 11 years on, but your conversation was certainly one of the most interesting I've read. Granted I'm still not sure how you can, will or have argued your case, but I've enjoyed it all the same. If you ever come back online, show us how you went...

Hey, I'm obviously new here, so I thought I'd ask something. Although Arrian and Plutarch are certainly two of our best sources on Alexander, do they manipulate Alexanders histories to make them more roman? For example, do they accentuate tellings of Alexanders leadership or bravery in order to mode...

Isn't Strabo's account far outdated? He himself is considered unreliable, merely because of the timeframe the sources he uses are from. Callisthenes and Aristobulus would be stellar sources but the likelihood of their accurate accounts being used by Strabo seems low.