Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- BOOK ONE
- BOOK TWO
- ALEXANDER'S CONQUESTS IN THE WEST
- THE WAR AGAINST PORUS OF INDIA
- THE QUEEN OF THE AMAZONS
- THE END OF THE WAR AGAINST PORUS
- THE MARVELS OF INDIA
- THE CONQUEST OF BABYLON
- ALEXANDER'S DEATH
- WAR BETWEEN ALEXANDER'S BARONS
- THE AVENGING OF ALEXANDER
- Appendix 1 How Nectanebus fathered Alexander [from the 13th-century Prose Alexander]
- Appendix 2 Aristotle's advice to Alexander [an interpolation into Wauquelin's text]
- Appendix 3 Jacques de Longuyon's excursus on the Nine Worthies [from Les Voeux du Paon (‘The Vows of the Peacock’), c.1310]
ALEXANDER'S DEATH
from BOOK TWO
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- BOOK ONE
- BOOK TWO
- ALEXANDER'S CONQUESTS IN THE WEST
- THE WAR AGAINST PORUS OF INDIA
- THE QUEEN OF THE AMAZONS
- THE END OF THE WAR AGAINST PORUS
- THE MARVELS OF INDIA
- THE CONQUEST OF BABYLON
- ALEXANDER'S DEATH
- WAR BETWEEN ALEXANDER'S BARONS
- THE AVENGING OF ALEXANDER
- Appendix 1 How Nectanebus fathered Alexander [from the 13th-century Prose Alexander]
- Appendix 2 Aristotle's advice to Alexander [an interpolation into Wauquelin's text]
- Appendix 3 Jacques de Longuyon's excursus on the Nine Worthies [from Les Voeux du Paon (‘The Vows of the Peacock’), c.1310]
Summary
How Alexander sent letters to his mother and to his good master Aristotle.
With all the peoples of the world now obeying him without demur as their sovereign king and emperor, Alexander promptly dictated letters and sent them to his mother and his master Aristotle, telling them of the battles and trials he'd faced in conquering all the world's kingdoms, and of the strange peoples and creatures he'd found in many distant parts of India and elsewhere. To prove his words he sent his mother gifts of some of his most amazing discoveries: men with no head or one foot or one eye and other extraordinary things. And he told her, too, how he'd finally descended on Babylon and triumphantly conquered the city and was waiting for her there, for his intention was to be crowned there as emperor of the whole world. So he begged her most affectionately to be at this great occasion without fail, for it was his dearest wish that she should share in the celebration and rejoice in his glory.
When the lady Olympias received the message and call from her beloved son Alexander she was joyful beyond measure, and immediately summoned the noble philosopher Aristotle, Alexander's master and teacher, to share the news with him and to seek his help in making the journey possible. But the history says she never made it, as will become clear in due course.
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- The Medieval Romance of AlexanderThe Deeds and Conquests of Alexander the Great, pp. 266 - 279Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2012