Revised Preface                                    viii
Ancient sources and modern books                   xi
Alexander's life and reign: the main events        xv
Alexander in quotes                                xvii
Special notes and abbreviations                    xix
        List of maps                               xxi
    1 The sources                                  1   (17)
      From Arrian to Alexander (OUP, Oxford:
      1988), Chap. I, `Introduction: Some Basic
      Principles', pp. 1-15
          A.B. Bosworth
    2 Alexander's influences and the Macedonian    18  (41)
    background
      Philip II of Macedonia (Yale University
      Press, New Haven and London: 2008),
      Appendix 2, `The Question of Macedonian
      Ethnicity', pp. 216--219
          Ian Worthington
      `Macedonian Kingship and Other Political
      Institutions', in J. Roisman and Ian
      Worthington (eds), A Companion to Ancient
      Macedonia (Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford:
      2010), pp. 374-391
          C.J. King
      `Social Customs and Institutions', in J.
      Roisman and Ian Worthington (eds), A
      Companion to Ancient Macedonia
      (Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford: 2010), pp.
      392-408
          N. Sawada
    3 Alexander's aims                             59  (30)
      `The Aims of Alexander', Greece and Rome2
      12 (CUP, Cambridge: 1965), pp. 205-215
          P.A. Brunt
      `Alexander the Great and the "Limits of
      the Civilised World"' in W. Heckel and L.
      Tritle (eds), Crossroads of History, The
      Age of Alexander (Regina Books,
      Claremont: 2003), Chap. 8, pp. 147-174
          W. Heckel
    4 Alexander's battles and generalship          89  (21)
      The Generalship of Alexander the Great
      (repr. Rutgers University Press New
      Brunswick: 1960), Chap. 10, `Alexander's
      Generalship', pp. 284-305
          J.F.C. Fuller
    5 Alexander and the Greeks                     110 (42)
      A History of Macedonia 3 (OUP, Oxford:
      1988), Chap. III, `Alexander and the
      Greek States', Sec. 3, `Relations with
      the Greek States', pp. 72-83
          N.G.L. Hammond
          F.W. Walbank
      `Alexander and the Greeks', in W. Heckel
      and L. Tritle (eds), Alexander the Great.
      A New History (Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford:
      2009), Chap. 6, pp. 99-120
          E. Poddighe
    6 Alexander and the Persian empire             152 (64)
      `The Empire of Darius III in
      Perspective', in W. Heckel and L. Tritle
      (eds), Alexander the Great. A New History
      (Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford: 2009), Chap. 8,
      pp. 141-170
          P. Briant
      `Alexander's Settlements in Central
      Asia', Ancient Macedonia 4 (Institute for
      Balkan Studies, Thessaloniki: 1986), pp.
      315-323
          F.L. Holt
      `Alexander the Great, Nation Building,
      and the Creation and Maintenance of
      Empire', in V.D. Hanson (ed.), Makers of
      Ancient Strategy: From the Persian Wars
      to the Fall of Rome (Princeton University
      Press, Princeton: 2010), Chap. 5, pp.
      118-137
          Ian Worthington
    7 Alexander, India and the Gedrosian desert    216 (29)
      `Alexander and India', Greece and Rome2
      12 (CUP, Cambridge: 1965), pp. 155-165
          A.K. Narain
      `The Indian Satrapies under Alexander the
      Great', Antichthon 17 (Australasian
      Society for Classical Studies, 1983), pp.
      37-46
          A.B. Bosworth
    8 From mass marriage to death                  245 (31)
      `The Death of Alexander the Great: Rumour
      and Propaganda', Classical Quarterly2 21
      (CUP, Cambridge: 1971), pp. 112-136
          A.B. Bosworth
    9 Alexander and the `unity of mankind'         276 (43)
      Alexander the Great 1 (CUP, Cambridge:
      1948), Chap. II, `The Conquest of the Far
      East', `the Susa wedding', pp. 110-111,
      `the mutiny at Opis', pp. 115-117, Chap.
      III, `Personality, Policy and Aims', `the
      policy of fusion', pp. 137-138 and 145-148
          W.W. Tarn
      `Alexander and the Iranians', Journal of
      Hellenic Studies 100 (Hellenic Society,
      1980), pp. 1-21
          A.B. Bosworth
      `Ethnicity and Cultural Policy at
      Alexander's Court', Ancient World 22
      (Ares Publishers, Inc.: 1991), pp. 21-25
          E.N. Borza
    10 Alexander and deification                   319 (38)
      Alexander the Great 2 (CUP, Cambridge:
      1948), Appendix 22, `Alexander's
      Deification', Sec. III, `324 BC', pp.
      370-373
          W.W. Tarn
      Alexander the Great, Man and God, rev.
      ed. (Pearson, London: 2004), pp. 2273-2283
          Ian Worthington
      `Alexander's Religion and Divinity', in
      J. Roisman (ed.), Brill's Companion to
      Alexander the Great (Leiden: 2003), Chap.
      10, pp. 253-278
          E.A. Fredricksmeyer
    11 Alexander and conspiracies                  357 (34)
      `Alexander the Great and the Loneliness
      of Power', in E. Badian (ed.), Studies in
      Greek and Roman History (Blackwell,
      Oxford: 1964), pp. 192-205
          E. Badian
      `The Conspiracy against Philotas',
      Phoenix 31 Classical Association of
      Canada: (1977), pp. 9-21
          W. Heckel
      `Anaxarchus and Callisthenes: Academic
      Intrigue at Alexander's Court', in H.J.
      Dell (ed.), Ancient Macedonian Studies in
      Honour of C.F. Edson (Institute for
      Balkan Studies, Thessaloniki: 1981), pp.
      73-86
          E.N. Borza
    12 Alexander: the `Great'?                     391 (20)
      Alexander the Great: King, Commander and
      Statesman2 (Bristol Classical Press,
      Bristol: 1989), pp. 269-273 and 306
      (notes)
          N.G.L. Hammond
      `Worldwide Empire vs Glorious Enterprise:
      Diodorus and Justin on Philip II and
      Alexander the Great', in E.D. Carney and
      D. Ogden (eds), Philip II and Alexander
      the Great: Lives and Afterlives (OUP,
      Oxford: 2010), pp. 165-174 (notes on pp.
      289-291)
          Ian Worthington
Index of sources                                   411 (2)
General index                                      413