Ficción y realidad en las historias antiguas de Alejandro Magno

Laburpena

This article intends to analyse the problem set out by the ancient historiography devoted to Alexander the Great. The Macedonian conquerer inspired a vast array of fictions, from shortly after his death to our present time. The source for all this fictional production is the work of the ancient historians, some of which are lost and some have survived. The ancients had a view on the writing of history which was different from ours: influenced by rhetoric, great importance was given to the most literary aspects from historiography. This, added up to the fact that Alexander himself was very conscious of the propagandistic value of literature, makes the analysis of this historiographic works extremely complex. Some of these problems are explained with examples taken from Quintus Curtius Rufus. Keywords: Alexander the Great, Greek historiography, Roman historiography, rhetoric and historiography, romance of Alexander, Quintus Curtius Rufus