Clitarchus (Graece Κλείταρχος; interdum "Colophonius" dictus e patris origine; interdum "Alexandrinus", sed et "Aeolensis"^[1]), rerum gestarum scriptor Graecus saeculi 3 a.C.n. ineuntis, fuit filius Dinonis Colophonii qui de Imperio Persarum scripserat.^[2] Clitarchus in aula Ptolemaei, Alexandri satrapae et Aegypti regis, vixisse censetur. Clitarchus fuit auctor operis seu de vita Alexandri Macedonis seu de rebus a sectatoribus Alexandri gestis et visis. Huius operis fragmenta fere 30 nominatim supersunt; censetur et alias res ab historicis Alexandri Magni narratis ex opere Clitarchi haustas.

Opera

• Historiae Alexandri (Περὶ Ἀλέξανδρον ἱστορίαι)

Notae

Bibliographia

• Ernst Badian, "The Date of Clitarchus" in Proceedings of the African classical associations vol. 8 (1965) pp. 5–11; reimpressum in Ernst Badian, Collected papers on Alexander the Great (Londinii: Routledge, 2012) pp. 113-119
• Helmut Berve, Das Alexanderreich auf prosopographischer Grundlage (Monaci: Beck, 1926) ii.40 (vol. 2 pp. 422-423)
• A. B. Bosworth, "In search of Cleitarchus" in Histos vol. 1 (1997) pp. 211-224
• Truesdell S. Brown, "Clitarchus" in American Journal of Philology vol. 71 (1950) pp. 134-155 JSTOR
• Chrysanthos S. Chrysanthou, "P. Oxy. LXXI 4808: ‘bios’, character, and literary criticism" in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik vol. 193 (2015) pp. 25-38
• Robin Lane Fox, "P.Oxy. 4808 and Historians" in Krzysztof Nawotka et al., edd., The Historiography of Alexander the Great (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2018) pp. 91-104 Textus
• Paul Goukowsky, "Clitarque seul? Remarques sur les sources du livre XVII de Diodore de Sicile" in Revue des études anciennes vol. 71 (1969) pp. 320-337
• J. R. Hamilton, "Cleitarchus and Aristobulus" in Historia vol. 10 (1961) pp. 448-458 JSTOR
• R. A. Hazzard, Imagination of a monarchy: studies in Ptolemaic propaganda (Toronti, 2000) pp. 7-17
• Felix Jacoby, Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker (Lugduni Batavorum: Brill, 1923- ) no. 137. Kommentar (1930) pp. 484-498
• Fridericus Dübner, Carolus Mullerus, edd., Arriani Anabasis et Indica; reliqua Arriani et scriptores de rebus Alexandri Magni; Pseudo-Callisthenis historia fabulosa (Parisiis: Didot, 1846) Textus fasc. 2 pp. 74-85 (vide pp. 446-457 versionis archive.org)
• Luisa Prandi, "New evidence for the dating of Cleitarchus (P.Oxy. LXXII.4808)?" in Histos vol. 6 (2012) pp. 15-26
• "Zur Datierung Kleitarchs" in Fritz Schachermeyr, Alexander in Babylon und die Reichsordnung nach seinem Tode (Sitzungsberichte der Oesterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, philosophisch-historische Klasse vol. 268 pars 3. Vindobonae: Oesterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1970) pp. 210-224; exemplar mutuabile
• Rüdiger Schmitt, "Cleitarchus" in Encyclopaedia Iranica Online (Anglice)
• W. W. Tarn, Alexander the Great. Vol. 2: Sources and studies (Cantabrigiae, 1948) pp. 5-43

Nexus externi

• Cleitarchus apud Livius.org
• Karl Soundy, "Dating Kleitarchos"