@inbook{ead6d21f058e4e54989cb5c3c7f6e683,
title = "Alexander, the Crown Prince",
abstract = "The Life of Alexander by Plutarch and the Alexander Romance by Ps.-Callisthenes are the only two sources that deal with Alexander{\textquoteright}s birth, childhood and youth. Both works deliver a large number of anectodes: but only in the case of Plutarch{\textquoteright}s biography do these anecdotes maintain a firm connection with reality. In the Alexander Romance, the author offers the reader a story full of plot twists. Alexander{\textquoteright}s youth ended abruptly in the autumn of 336, when his father Philip II was murdered in Aigai, during the ceremonies organized to celebrate the wedding between Cleopatra, Philip{\textquoteright}s daughter and Alexander{\textquoteright}s sister, and the king of Epirus, Alexander called Molossos: the crown prince became king in a sudden and most unexpected way.",
keywords = "Alexander the Great, Macedonian kingship, Philip II, Alexander the Great, Macedonian kingship, Philip II",
author = "Franca Landucci",
year = "2019",
language = "English",
isbn = "2082-8993",
series = "ANABASIS",
pages = "9--20",
editor = "M. Olbricht",
booktitle = "Macedones, Persia et ultima Orientis. Alexander's Anabasis from the Danube to the Syr Darya",
}