TRACCE DI STORIA NEL ΠΕΡΙ ΤΗΣ ΤΟΥ ΝΕΙΛΟΥ ΑΝΑΒΑΣΕΩΣ ARISTOTELICO

Abstract

0e paper aims to demonstrate that the informations about the war plans of the
Persian king Artaxerxes III againts Egypt, o6ered by Aristotle in his treatise De inundatione
Nili, are of Egyptian origin and speci!cally refer to the events of 343/342 BC. It is also argued
that Aristotle’s source was, in all likelihood, Callisthenes of Olynthus.