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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;savitale, post: 8017257, member: 95284&quot;]The story is unlikely to be historically accurate. Plutarch was writing 400 years after the events took place, and unless he is referencing a contemporary primary source (which he does not) the dialogue and many details are simply made up.</p><p><br /></p><p>Remember that a historian’s job in Roman times was to create a readable a work that reflected his morals and values, or those of his patron. Adding creative details to make a point was not a bad thing. A different way to ask the question would be: Why did Plutarch write that ‘Philoneikus the Thessalian brought the horse Boukephalus and offered it to Philip for the sum of thirteen talents’?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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