This fictional version of a historical episode, the long scene devoted, in the old version of the Romance of Alexander, to the deliberations of the Athenians, ordered by Alexander to present their ten most brilliant orators following the taking of Thebes, constitutes a typical development of school rhetoric; leave to speak is given successively to three famous figures, Eschines, Demades, and Demosthenes, whose respective positions, which are not historical, are reviewed and corrected to better serve the purposes of a story which glorifies Alexander.Version romancée d’un épisode historique, la longue scène consacrée, dans la version ancienne du Roman d’Alexandre, aux délibérations des Athéniens, sommés par Alexandre de livrer leurs dix plus ...