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| List of Plates | |
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| List of Abbreviations | |
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| Preface | |
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| Map: Alexander's Campaigns, 334-323 BC | |
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| The Family of Philip II and Alexander | |
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| The Family of Olympias | |
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| Translator's Note | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Macedonian Background | |
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| Early History of Macedonia | |
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| Macedonians and Greeks: Language, Culture, Attitudes | |
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| The King, Aristocracy, and Macedonian Institutions | |
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| Philip II, Father of Alexander the Great | |
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| Philip's Marriages | |
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| Philip's Death | |
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| A Comparison of Philip and Alexander | |
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| Alexander's Family, Youth, Appearance, and Character | |
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| Alexander's Parents and Mythical Ancestors | |
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| Alexander's Siblings: A Warlike Half-Sister and a Mentally Defective Half-Brother | |
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| Alexander's Education | |
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| Alexander's Body | |
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| Alexander's Attitude towards Sex | |
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| Alexander's Drinking, Personal Habits, and Health | |
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| Alexander's Character, Intellect, and Moderation | |
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| Alexander and Bucephalas | |
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| The Persians and their Empire | |
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| The Empire before Alexander's Accession | |
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| Persian Wealth and Displays of Opulence | |
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| Death of Darius III | |
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| Alexander and the Greeks | |
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| The Panhellenic Crusade | |
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| Alexander's Punishment of those Greeks who Opposed Him | |
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| Greek Ambassadors to the Great King Captured by Alexander | |
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| Resistance to Alexander in his Absence | |
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| Alexander and the Greek Cities of Asia Minor | |
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| The Army and War | |
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| Financial Resources and Military Strength | |
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| Major Battles | |
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| Sieges and Smaller Battles | |
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| Alexander and the Barbarians | |
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| Alexander Adopts Persian Dress and Practices | |
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| The Attempt to Introduce Proskynesis | |
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| Mixed Marriages | |
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| The Epigoni and the Appointment of Orientals in the Army | |
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| The Persian Seal | |
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| The Tomb of Cyrus the Great | |
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| Macedonian Reaction to Alexander's Orientalism | |
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| Alexander and Women | |
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| Alexander and his "Mothers": Olympias, Ada, and Sisygambis | |
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| The Captive Persian Queens | |
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| The Amazon Queen | |
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| Timocleia of Thebes | |
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| The Wife of Spitamenes | |
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| Alexander and Roxane | |
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| Alexander and Cleophis | |
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| Gods and Heroes | |
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| Imitation and Emulation of Achilles, Heracles, and Dionysus | |
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| The Gordian Knot | |
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| Amun (Ammon) and Alexander's "Divinity" | |
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| Alexander and the Macedonians: Disaffection, Conspiracy, and Mutiny | |
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| General Account of Alexander's Savagery | |
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| Alexander the Lyncestian | |
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| The Elimination of Philotas and Parmenion | |
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| Cleitus | |
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| Callisthenes and the Hermolaus Conspiracy | |
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| Coenus Opposes Alexander at the Hyphasis (Beas) River | |
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| Rivalry between Craterus and Hephaestion | |
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| Harpalus, Alexander's Imperial Treasurer | |
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| The "Opis Mutiny" | |
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| Alexander's Final Days, Final Plans, and the Division of Power after his Death | |
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| Death of Alexander | |
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| Rumors of Poisoning | |
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| The Hypomnemata and the Final Plans of Alexander | |
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| Alexander's Will and the Division of Power after his Death | |
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| Alexander and the Romans | |
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| A Roman View of Alexander's Conquests | |
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| Did the Romans Send an Embassy to Alexander? | |
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| Could Alexander have Conquered the Romans? | |
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| Roman Imitation and Emulation of Alexander | |
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| Cities Founded by Alexander | |
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| Alexandria in Egypt | |
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| Alexandria in the Hindu Kush (Parapamisus) | |
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| Alexandria-Eschate (Alexandria on the Iaxartes) | |
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| Bucephala and Nicaea on the Hydaspes (Jhelum) | |
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| Alexandria in Carmania | |
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| Alexandria in Susiana | |
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| Foundations Amongst the Cossaeans | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |
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| Plates | |
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| Bust of Alexander known as the Azara Herm | |
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| Alexander with lion headdress from the battlescene on the Alexander Sarcophagus | |
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| Hephaestion; from a hunting scene on the Alexander Sarcophagus | |
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| The Alexander Mosaic from the House of the Faun, Pompeii | |
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| Coin showing Alexander with lion headdress | |
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| Coin showing Alexander with elephant headdress | |
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| Coin showing Alexander with horns of Amun (Ammon) | |
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| The Marriage of Alexander and Roxane from fresco by "Il Sodoma" | |