Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
When we talk about "lost" sources (on Alexander or anything else), what does that mean? It's not a conspiracy. These are simply ancient accounts that didn't survive the 2000+ years between then and now.
I'll introduce you to "fragmenta" and "testimonia," and a man named Jacoby, who assembled the first collection of the lost Greek historians (FGrH). Now we have Brill's New Jacoby (BNJ), which is the current iteration; I'll show you a "fragment" from Kleitarchos and how these "fragments" show up in still-existing historians.
Last, I explain a little about ancient manuscripts, and also spelling conventions between "Latin" and "Greek" (and Anglicized). So Kleitarchos = Cleitarchus.
N.B. Small correction, Athenaeus is the author of the Supper Party. I accidentally said Athanasius in the video; he's an Early Church Father who I *also* happen to know a bit about and I have a bad habit of calling one by the other's name. Ha. Not worth redoing the video, so I note the correction here.
When we talk about "lost" sources (on Alexander or anything else), what does that mean? It's not a conspiracy. These are simply ancient accounts that didn't survive the 2000+ years between then and now.
I'll introduce you to "fragmenta" and "testimonia," and a man named Jacoby, who assembled the first collection of the lost Greek historians (FGrH). Now we have Brill's New Jacoby (BNJ), which is the current iteration; I'll show you a "fragment" from Kleitarchos and how these "fragments" show up in still-existing historians.
Last, I explain a little about ancient manuscripts, and also spelling conventions between "Latin" and "Greek" (and Anglicized). So Kleitarchos = Cleitarchus.
N.B. Small correction, Athenaeus is the author of the Supper Party. I accidentally said Athanasius in the video; he's an Early Church Father who I *also* happen to know a bit about and I have a bad habit of calling one by the other's name. Ha. Not worth redoing the video, so I note the correction here.
