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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 94587, member: 57463&quot;]<b>More than you ever wanted to know ...</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Well, I think that attribution is correct.&nbsp; You can see the obvious copying of the intention, but clearly, the two men are different and the Seleukid has his hair tied up, whereas Alexander wears the Lionskin.&nbsp; I do not see why you &quot;laughed out loud&quot; on that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a bibliography of sources that you might find helpful.&nbsp; There is no end of this material if you care to immerse yourself in Alexander.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ancient Sources</p><p>Arrian (translated by Aubrey de Selincourt), The Campaigns of Alexander. (London: Penguin Books, 1958)</p><p>Plutarch (translated by John Dryden; revised by Arthur Hugh Clough, 1864), Lives. (New York: Modern Library, late 20th century)</p><p>Rufus, Quintus Curtius (translated by John Yardley), The History of Alexander. (London: Penguin Books, 1984)</p><p><br /></p><p>Modern art histories</p><p>Bieber, Margarete, Alexander the Great in Greek and Roman Art. (Chicago: 1964) </p><p>Bieber, Margarete, &quot;The Portraits of Alexander the Great&quot; (Philadelphia: Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Volume 95 Number 5, 1949)</p><p>Stewart, Andrew, Faces of Power: Alexander&#039;s Image and Hellenistic Politics. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993)</p><p><br /></p><p>Modern Histories:</p><p>Grant, Michael, From Alexander to Cleopatra: The Hellenistic World. (New York: The History Book Club, 2000)</p><p>Holt, Frank L., &quot;Alexander the Great Today: In the Interests of Historical Accuracy?&quot; (Ancient History Bulletin 13.3, 1999. <a href="http://www.trentu.ca/academic/ahb" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.trentu.ca/academic/ahb" rel="nofollow">www.trentu.ca/academic/ahb</a>)</p><p>Kitto, H. D. F., The Greeks. (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1951-1984)</p><p><br /></p><p>NUMISMATICS</p><p>Price, Martin Jessop, The Coinage in the Name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus. (London: The British Museum, 1991)</p><p>Price, Martin Jessop, Coins of the Macedonians. (London: British Museum Publications, 1974)</p><p>Newell, Edward T., Royal Greek Portrait Coins. (Racine: Whitman Publishing, 1937)</p><p>Brown, Blanche R., &quot;Styles in the Alexander Portraits on the Coins of Lysimachus&quot; in Coins, Culture, and History in the Ancient World. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1981)</p><p>Thompson, Margaret, Alexander&#039;s Drachm Mints II: Lampsacus and Abydus. (New York: The American Numismatic Society, 1991)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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