Deed — 2 authors face each other below

death of Alexander

kind: death · 323 BCE — the editor’s frame · 3 mentions across 3 episodes of the record — counted by the house’s first pass receipt — the deed shelf, first pass receipt — the witness index

The death at Babylon after the drinking at Medius' house; the poisoning tradition is served as the later rumor Plutarch says it was.

Where the accounts part — the record’s own argument; the witnesses below carry the receipts

Plutarch reads the Royal Journals against the tragic inventions — 'the bowl of Heracles' and the sudden spear-like pain — and dates the poison story's appearance five years after the death. The record's own quarrel between document and drama, preserved in one witness and echoed in another.

The regnal line — the editor’s table of years, never the record’s voice

Anchored at 323 BCE on the editor’s table of years .

· 323 BCE — date secure ·

June 323 BCE at Babylon; Plutarch cites the court Journals day by day, and Diogenes Laertius carries Demetrius' same-day synchronism with the death of Diogenes the Cynic.

The accounts, side by side — each witness in its own words; every quote is the served record’s, linked to its episode

Plutarch · one account

75–77 the principal narrative The Journals' day-count of the fever, against the tragedians' finale.

after drinking all the next day, he began to have a fever. Plut. Alexander 75

Most of this account is word for word as written in the Journals. And as for suspicions of poisoning, no one had any immediately Plut. Alexander 77

'These particulars certain writers felt obliged to give, and so, as it were, invented in tragic fashion a moving finale' — the critique embedded in the narrative. Alexander · Bernadotte Perrin, 1914–1926

Diogenes Laertius · one account

6.79 in passing The philosopher's synchronism: Diogenes dead at Corinth the same day.

asserts that on the same day on which Alexander died in Babylon Diogenes died in Corinth. D.L. 6.77-80

Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Volume II (Books VI-X) · R. D. Hicks, 1925

Who stands in this deed — standing in the same episodes; counted by the house’s first pass

Alexander — a candidate entry Alexander the Great — 2 episodes shared Aristobulus — a candidate entry Aristotle — 1 episode shared Arrhidaeus — 1 episode shared Diogenes — a candidate entry Hephaestion — 1 episode shared Heracles — 1 episode shared Perdiccas — a candidate entry Philip — a candidate entry

Doors to the sister houses

logoi — the words

No door is cut to the word-house from this room yet. logoi.health keeps the words meanwhile.

mythoi — the stories

No door is cut to the story-house from this room yet. mythoi.health keeps the stories meanwhile.

The record here: The Histories, Herodotus — Godley, 1920–25 · Parallel Lives, Plutarch — Perrin, 1914–26 · 166 works · 12,119 episodes served

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