The ''Itinerarium Alexandri'' ("The Journey of Alexander") is a 4th-century

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'' itinerarium'', a travel guide in the form of a listing of

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(vici) and other stops, on a journey with the intervening

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given. The text describes

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's journey of conquest to the Empire of the Persian. The book contains a description of Alexander's life from his ascendance to the Macedonian throne to his conquests in India. The content of the texts draws heavily on the Anabasis of Alexander by

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and it has similarities to the Alexander Romance. The work is dedicated to the Roman Emperor

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. The

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but it is suspected to have been composed in 340 by Julius Valerius, who wrote the '' Res gestae Alexandri Macedonis''.

Bibliography

* Heckel, Waldemar, John Yardley
Alexander the Great: Historical Texts in Translation
Blackwell Publishing, 2004, , p. xxvi. xxvi. * Iolo Davies: Alexander's itinerary (itinerary of Alexandria). An English translation. In: Ancient History Bulletin 12, 1998, p. 29-54. * Raffaella Tabacco: Itinerarium Alexandri. Testo, apparato Critico, introduzione traduzione, e commento. Turin 2000th * Raffaella Tabacco: Itinerarium Alexandri. Critical review of studies and research perspectives, in "Bulletin of Latin Studies" XVII, 1987, pp. 77–120 * Michael H. Dodgeon
The Roman eastern frontier and the Persian wars
AD 226 - 363, Volume 1 Page 385 {{Authority control Roman itineraries Ancient Roman geography Foreign relations of ancient Rome History of navigation Travel books Geography books Ancient Greek military books Roman-era Greek historiography 4th-century books in Latin Works of unknown authorship Historiography of Alexander the Great