摘要：This paper argues that Jacoby's fragment 5 of Ephippus of Olynthus' lost pam-phlet on the deaths of Hephaestion and Alexander conceals a malevolently distorted and hitherto unrecognised reference to Alexander's adoption in 324/323 BC of the traditional hunting style of the Assyrian and Achaemenid kings, namely, the use of a chariot and archery in pursuit of lions. The paper puts this startling development into the larger con-text of, firstly, Alexander's political and cultural Persianising, and, secondly, the rich symbolism of the royal lion hunter in the ancient near east. Finally the paper asks how far such 'misreadings' of the historical Alexander's Asian monarchy by the first genera-tion of Greek Alexander-historians might have coloured the later ancient view of Alex-ander's alleged quest for deification
