Comissatio a Thaïde meretrice Graeca suasa est anno 331/330 a.C.n. quo tempore Alexander cum amicis iuxta Persepolin cenabat. Hac comissatione incendium in palatium regum Persarum illatum esse fertur.
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Comissatio a Thaïde meretrice Graeca suasa est anno 331/330 a.C.n.
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FortunaDe hac comissatione scripsit Ioannes Dryden anno 1697 carmen cui titulus est "Alexander's Feast, or the Power of Musick: an Ode wrote in Honour of St.
FontesArrianus, Anabasis Alexandri 3.18.11-12 Clitarchus, Historiae Alexandri (FGrHist 137 F 11) apud Athenaei Deipnosophistas 576d Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 17.72 Plutarchus, "Vita Alexandri" 38 Q.
Bibliographia"Thais" in Helmut Berve, Das Alexanderreich auf prosopographischer Grundlage (Monaci: Beck, 1926) i.359 (vol.
Nexus externiDe incendio Persepolitano apud LacusCurtius Anthony Wright, "Why did Alexander burn Persepolis?"
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Comissatio a Thaïde meretrice Graeca suasa est anno 331/330 a.C.n. quo tempore Alexander cum amicis iuxta Persepolin cenabat. Hac comissatione incendium in palatium regum Persarum illatum esse fertur. 1
Fortuna
De hac comissatione scripsit Ioannes Dryden anno 1697 carmen cui titulus est "Alexander's Feast, or the Power of Musick: an Ode wrote in Honour of St. Cecilia", musica ab Ieremia Clarke composita. Rursus et sub eodem titulo musicam anno 1736 composuit Georgius Fridericus Handelius (eodem textu Ioannis Dryden ope Newburgh Hamilton accommodato). E carmine Dryden saepe citatur versus None but the brave deserves the fair, a principio de Alexandro et Thaide dictus. 1
Fontes
Arrianus, Anabasis Alexandri 3.18.11-12
Clitarchus, Historiae Alexandri (FGrHist 137 F 11) apud Athenaei Deipnosophistas 576d
Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 17.72
Plutarchus, "Vita Alexandri" 38
Q. Curtius Rufus, Historiae 5.7 1
Bibliographia
"Thais" in Helmut Berve, Das Alexanderreich auf prosopographischer Grundlage (Monaci: Beck, 1926) i.359 (vol. 2 p. 175)
Eugene N. Borza, "Fire from Heaven: Alexander at Persepolis" in Classical Philology vol. 67 (1972) pp. 233-245 JSTOR
Eugene N. Borza, "The symposium at Alexander's court" in Αρχαία Μακεδονία = Ancient Macedonia III (Thessalonicae, 1983) pp. 45-55
Philip Bosman, "Two conceptions of court at Persepolis" in Frances Pownall et al., edd., The courts of Philip II and Alexander the Great (Berolini: De Gruyter, 2022) pp. 169-186
N. G. L. Hammond, "The Archaeological and Literary Evidence for the Burning of the Persepolis Palace" in Classical Quarterly 2a ser. vol. 42 (1992) pp. 358-364 JSTOR
Christian San José Campos, "Alexander the Great in Persepolis" in Karanos vol. 4 (2021) pp. 13-33
Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg, "Alexander and Persepolis" in Alexander the Great: Reality and Myth (Romae: "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, 1993) pp. 177-188 1
Nexus externi
De incendio Persepolitano apud LacusCurtius
Anthony Wright, "Why did Alexander burn Persepolis?" 1
The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Comissatio Alexandri Persepoli celebrata”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. 1
Alexander’s feast in Persepolis is festival of Alexander the Great in Persepolis 330/331 BCE, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 2