Comissatio Alexandri Persepoli celebrata

Comissatio a Thaïde meretrice Graeca suasa est anno 331/330 a.C.n. quo tempore Alexander cum amicis iuxta Persepolin cenabat. Hac comissatione incendium in palatium regum Persarum illatum esse fertur.

 Fortuna 
De hac comissatione scripsit Ioannes Dryden anno 1697 carmen cui titulus est "Alexander's Feast, or the Power of Musick: an Ode wrote in Honour of St. Cecilia", musica ab Ieremia Clarke composita. Rursus et sub eodem titulo musicam anno 1736 composuit Georgius Fridericus Handelius (eodem textu Ioannis Dryden ope Newburgh Hamilton accommodato). E carmine Dryden saepe citatur versus None but the brave deserves the fair, a principio de Alexandro et Thaide dictus.

 Fontes 
 Arrianus, Anabasis Alexandri 3.18.11-12
 Clitarchus, Historiae Alexandri ( 137 F 11)  576d
 Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 17.72
 Plutarchus, "Vita Alexandri" 38
 Q. Curtius Rufus, Historiae 5.7

 Bibliographia 
 "Thais" in  i.359 (vol. 2 p. 175)
 Eugene N. Borza, "Fire from Heaven: Alexander at Persepolis" in Classical Philology vol. 67 (1972) pp. 233-245 JSTOR
 Eugene N. Borza, "The symposium at Alexander's court" in Αρχαία Μακεδονία = Ancient Macedonia III (Thessalonicae, 1983) pp. 45-55
 Philip Bosman, "Two conceptions of court at Persepolis" in Frances Pownall et al., edd., The courts of Philip II and Alexander the Great (Berolini: De Gruyter, 2022) pp. 169-186
 N. G. L. Hammond, "The Archaeological and Literary Evidence for the Burning of the Persepolis Palace" in Classical Quarterly 2a ser. vol. 42 (1992) pp. 358-364 JSTOR
 Christian San José Campos, "Alexander the Great in Persepolis" in Karanos vol. 4 (2021) pp. 13-33
 Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg, "Alexander and Persepolis" in Alexander the Great: Reality and Myth (Romae: "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, 1993) pp. 177-188

 Nexus externi 
 De incendio Persepolitano apud LacusCurtius
 Anthony Wright, "Why did Alexander burn Persepolis?"

Categoria:330 a.C.n.
Categoria:Alexander Magnus
Categoria:Ars convivialis Macedonica
Categoria:Ars convivialis Persica
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Categoria:Incendia
Categoria:Persepolis