Alexander of Macedon

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The demise of my dedicatee a year ago and the resulting final publication of his Collected Papers on Alexander the Great offer a characteristic event for an audit of the way this book has survived the persistent surge of Alexander grant since1991. When, in purposeful and cognizant impersonation of T.S. Eliot, I annexed the words il miglior fabbro to my devotion, the general response was that I obviously could have had no notion what Eliot in fact owed to Ezra Pound’s discount altering of The WasteLand.On the opposite: I knew everything about it, knew too how patiently, and completely, Ernst Badian had gone over so much of Alexander of Macedon’s first draft.