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grbs-16085	Djurslev, Christian Thrue	Did Alexander Read Cratinus’ Eunidae on his Deathbed?	2018	19	.pdf	application/pdf	7200	410	63	They must have taken part in the great number of dra- matic and musical competitions towards the end of Alexander’s life.58 We also know that performers were generally present at banquets in Babylon from the testimony of Nicoboule, who may have attended various festivities in the inner circles of the Mace- donian court.59 The presence of performers is also awkwardly acknowledged in the popular Greek Alexander Romance (hereafter AR), in its ‘alpha’-recension.60 This biography is a three-book fictional extravaganza that was probably formed in the third century A.D., but many features in it hail from much earlier periods. For the ‘barbarian’-binge stereotype of the Argead royal family see now Müller, Die Argeaden 64–68, with a particular discussion of the “new decadence” of Philip and Alexander in S. Müller, “Make it Big: The ‘New Decadence’ of the Macedonians under Philip II and Alexander III in Greco-Roman Narratives,” in T. Howe and S. Müller (eds.), Folly and Violence in the Court of Alexander the Great and his Successors.	cache/grbs-16085.pdf	txt/grbs-16085.txt