CLA230H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Diodorus Siculus, Achaean League, National Division 2
Document Summary
Royal diaries of the last 10 days of alex"s life, detailing his sickness and decline; seems there was no poison that could have caused the symptoms, probably typhus. None of the generals ever had any intention of handing back power; Roxana, the child, and alex"s brother are murdered over the next years. The empire however is now also a persian empire that still contains admin and institutions that are persian and remain. The successors had no interest in retaining the persian brides that had received from. Some think likely that if alex hadn"t died, the hellenistic per wouldn"t have happened, but instead macedonian and persian culture, regime, etc, would have absorbed the greek area. Historic texts hundreds of historians, but none have complete surviving works, only fragments. Diodorus siculus 1st c, mostly secondary source, unreliable, 10-40 books survive. Plutarch 1st c ad, biography and hellenistic figures, lots fictional.
