Did Alexander Read Cratinus’ <i>Eunidae</i> on his Deathbed?

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Ptolemy Chennus’ claim that Alexander had Cratinus' Eunidae on his deathbed is a literary invention keyed to the Dionysiac reputations of Alexander and Cratinus as imagined by the Second Sophistic.

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Christian Thrue Djurslev, Department of History and Classical Studies, School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University.

Carlsberg Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow

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2018-11-28

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