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dc.contributor.author | Tolić, Isidora | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-02-21T20:21:07Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2023-02-21T20:21:07Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2022-12 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Tolić I. Four Hooves and a Horn: How (Not) to Poison Alexander the Great. Philologia Classica 2022, 17 (2), 269–276. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu20.2022.206 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.other | https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu20.2022.206 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11701/39154 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Several ancient authors tell a puzzling story of treason to murder Alexander the Great by presenting him with poison or poisonous water carried in a curious vessel — a hoof of a horse, a mule, or an ass. Porphyry of Tyre, citing Kallimachos and Philo the Paradoxographer, gives us a reason to believe that the mention of hoof-made vessels was a misinterpretation of hornmade chalices, or put otherwise, drinking horns. Presuming that the vessel in question indeed was a drinking horn, we are left with an unusual image — Alexander the Great perished after drinking the poisonous water from the horn of a hornless animal. We can look into the development of this legend and propose its origins by examining mutual features of two distinct traditions — the Greek legend of the river Styx and its lethal streams and the Indo-Iranian tradition of several miraculous features of a unicorn’s horn, attested in Iranian, Indian, and Greek sources. After the survey of relevant sources, we see that the horn from Philo’s story represented a legendary present of Indian rulers intended to save Alexander the Great from harm. Various layers of misapprehension transformed the legendary gift into a device contracted to harm him. This way, the author demonstrates two points: 1) that the story told by Porphyry in Styg. 375F is a part of an Indo-Iranian tradition about unicorns and their miraculous features; and 2) that the legend of Alexander’s poisoning represents a transformed and misinterpreted story of Alexander’s grandest gift. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | The contents of this paper were presented during the Spring Seminar in Indo-European Linguistics 2022, organized by DIEUS — Society of Indo-European Scholars in Serbia. The realization of this research was financially supported by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of Republic of Serbia (No. 451-03-68/2022-14/200163). | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | St Petersburg State University | en_GB |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Philologia Classica;Volume 17; Issue 2 | - |
dc.subject | the river Styx | en_GB |
dc.subject | unicorn | en_GB |
dc.subject | royal gift | en_GB |
dc.subject | Indo-Iranian traditions | en_GB |
dc.subject | Alexander the Great | en_GB |
dc.subject | paradoxography | en_GB |
dc.title | Four Hooves and a Horn: How (Not) to Poison Alexander the Great | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
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