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J. C. Yardley, Pat Wheatley, and Waldemar Heckel. Justin: Epitome of the Phi- lippic History of Pompeius Trogus. Volume II: Books 13-15: The Successors to Alexander the Great. Clarendon Ancient History Series. Oxford: Oxford Univer- sity Press, 2011. Pp. xxx, 343. $135.00 (hb.). ISBN 978-0-19-927759-9; $99.00 (pb.). ISBN 978-0-19-927760-5.
Translation and appendices by Yardley. Commentary by Wheatley and Heckel.
For the past two decades the Clarendon Ancient History series has provided thorough, carefully researched commentaries on historical texts in translation, a huge boon to scholars and those getting trained in scholarly methodology. In 1997 the second volume in the series, by J. C. Yardley and Waldemar Heckel, presented books 11 and 12 of Justin's epitome of Pompeius Trogus, a crucial document for the study of Alexander the Great. Now, fifteen years later, these same two scholars have teamed up with a third, Pat Wheatley, to produce a kind of sequel, and have furnished Hellenistic historians and their students with an- other valuable resource.
Books 13 through 15 of Justin's Epitome cover the quarter century following the death...