Alexander the Great: A ReaderRoutledge, 1965 - 133 pages |
Contents
1 THE SOURCES | 1 |
2 ALEXANDERS BACKGROUND | 17 |
3 ALEXANDERS AIMS | 42 |
4 ALEXANDER AND THE GREEKS | 65 |
5 ALEXANDER AND ASIA | 106 |
6 ALEXANDER INDIA AND THE FINAL YEARS | 148 |
7 ALEXANDER AS GENERAL | 178 |
8 ALEXANDER AND THE UNITY OF MANKIND | 198 |
9 ALEXANDER AND DEIFICATION | 236 |
10 ALEXANDER AND CONSPIRACIES | 273 |
THE GREAT? | 296 |
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A.B. Bosworth Achaemenid Alex Alexander’s death Ammon Antipater Aristobulus army Arrian Asia Minor Athenians Athens Babylon Badian barbarians battle Berve Bessus Brunt Callisthenes campaign cavalry Cleitarchus Coenus command Common Peace Companions conquered Conquest and Empire conspiracy court Craterus cult Curt Curtius Cyrus Darius deification Demosthenes Dinarchus Diod Diodorus divine enemy’s evidence Exiles Decree FGrH force Gaugamela Greece Greek cities Griffith Harpalus Hellenistic Hephaestion Heracles hipparchy historian History of Alexander honours Hydaspes Hyperides Ian Worthington India Indus infantry invasion Iranian Isocrates Justin king king’s kingdom Lamian Lamian War League of Corinth Macedon Macedonian mercenaries military mutiny N.G.L. Hammond Nearchus ofAlexander Olympias Onesicritus Opis oracle Oxford Parmenio passage Persepolis Persian empire phalanx Philip Philotas Plut Plutarch Porus probably proskynesis Ptolemy reference reign revolt river royal satrap says Sparta Strabo supra Susa Tarn Thebans throne tion tradition troops victory vulgate Zeus κα τν τς