{"id":2669,"date":"2011-02-15T14:34:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T14:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/02\/paul-cartledge-provoker-of-mythicists-alexander-the-great-and-jesus\/"},"modified":"2011-02-15T14:34:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T14:34:00","slug":"paul-cartledge-provoker-of-mythicists-alexander-the-great-and-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/02\/paul-cartledge-provoker-of-mythicists-alexander-the-great-and-jesus.html","title":{"rendered":"Paul Cartledge, Provoker of Mythicists? Alexander the Great and Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Paul Cartledge\u2019s book on Alexander the Great<\/a>\"\"<\/span><\/em> is quoted by Chuck Grantham<\/a> in a recent blog post:<\/p>\n

It has been well said that the search for the historical Alexander is something like the search for the historical Jesus. Many contemporaries had an interest in preserving a version of what he said and did, but none of the subject\u2019s actual words have been certainly preserved verbatim; and those writers whose words have survived all had an interest in recording, or creating, a particular image of their hero- or villain- for the edification of their contemporaries or posterity. With the result that the searches for both tend to be massively controversial.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What, hasn\u2019t this guy read all the mythicist websites? Doesn\u2019t he know that there is a consensus among mythicists that historians don\u2019t hold views of this sort? He\u2019s a professor of history at Cambridge University<\/a>, for crying out loud!<\/p>\n

Presumably he has no need to worry about the opinion of mythicists, since he doesn\u2019t have a blog\u2026 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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