IL ‘VIATICO’ DI ALESSANDRO: CONSIDERAZIONI SU UN PASSO PLUTARCHEO DE AL. FORT.

Valerio Capponi Brunetti

Abstract


Onesicritus of Astypalaea, companion and historian of Alexander the Great
and one of the main authorities in Plutarch’s Vita Alexandri, has been commonly identi+ed as
source of De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute 1, 3, 327D-F – 1, 4, 328A, where philosophy
and spiritual qualities – contrasted with the meager resources of the expedition - emerge as the
conqueror’s true and only equipment. A comparison between the oration and the preserved


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