title: “My City Which Is of Bronze”
abstract: Two journeys, one city. The History of Alexander of Macedon and the History of the City of Bronze entered Armenian literature at different times and from different languages—Greek and Arabic respectively—but shared in a narrative geography where the edges of the world contain marvels and moral instruction. This article tracks slippage between these two texts in their Armenian iterations, specifically in the kafas (short monorhymed poems) written about Alexander. It examines the addition of the C