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Alexander the Great in

Fact and Fiction

EDITED BY

A. B. Bosworth

and

E. J. Baynham

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Alexander the Great in fact and fiction / edited by A. B. Bosworth and E. J. Baynham.

ÒThis book originated in a symposium on Alexander the Great, held at the University of

Newcastle (NSW, Australia) in July 1997ÓÑPrelim. p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Preface

book originated in a symposium on Alexander the

Great, held at the University of Newcastle (NSW, Australia)

in July 1997. It was largely funded by a generous grant

from the Australian Research Council, which was designed

to encourage Ôgreater collaboration among researchers . . .

and thus enhance the quality and effectiveness of outcomes

of that researchÕ. Collaboration and co-operation were the

operative words. The symposium brought together estab-

lished scholars, students both graduate and undergraduate,

and interested members of the public. The papers which

were presented each had a designated respondent, and there

was ample time for formal and informal discussion. In the

aftermath a number of selected papers were revised and

refereed, and the outcome is this present volume, which we

hope will be a stimulus to scholarship on the Alexander

period.

We have many obligations. The symposium could not

have taken place without significant financial support, and

we are grateful to the Australian Research Council for a

Strategic Research Initiative Grant, which provided optimal

conditions for the occasion. The University of Newcastle

provided excellent facilities and generous hospitality; and

significant and strategically vital resources were committed

by Dr Fran Flavel, the Director of Marketing and Media

Services, and the Department of Classics from its RoosÐ

Ashworth fund. We also extend a warm note of thanks to

Hugh and Catherine Lindsay for hosting a most convivial

occasion in the wilds of Wallalong.

We are grateful for the contributions of all symposiasts

and their respondents, in particular the postgraduate partici-

pants, Ingrid Hastings, Elias Koulakiotis, Lara OÕSullivan,

and Pat Wheatley. We acknowledge too the contributions of

the Heads of Department, past and present, Harold Tarrant

and Godfrey Tanner, who emerged as the arbiter elegantiae

his

Preface

and public orator for the symposium, and the many devoted

and unpaid helpers, in particular Robyn Gay, Kay Hayes,

Rene Wilkinson, and Marguerite Johnson.

The preparation of the volume has necessarily been pro-

tracted, and we should like to thank all contributors for their

patience in the face of delay and their responsiveness to

deadlines. It has made the editorial work easier, as have the

labours of Pat Wheatley, who has unified the referencing in

the disparate papers and imposed the Harvard system upon

some rather recalcitrant material. Finally, we should express

our gratitude to Oxford University Press and its readers for

careful and helpful criticism, which has materially improved

the collective work.

A.B.B.

E.J.B.

April 1999

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