Byrd Wrote:
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> Spiros Wrote:
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> > Alexander was born the 21st, Williams was
> born the
> > 21st. Alexander died on the 11th, Williams
> died on
> > the 11th.
>
> I checked ancient sources. None of them gives a
> date in July for Alexander's birth.
>
> Or an exact date for his death.
>
> Do you have any ancient sources for these dates?
> Something contemporary with Alexander?
>
> -- Byrd
> Moderator, Hall of Ma'at


Not a contemporary and why should we take the word of historian but the source of the date is Plutarch .
[classics.mit.edu]
"Alexander was born the sixth of Hecatombaeon, which month the Macedonians call Lous,"