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Waldemar Heckel is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Calgary. His publications include Who's Who in the Age of Alexander the Great (Blackwell, 2005), Alexander the Great: Historical Sources in Translation (with J.C. Yardley, Blackwell, 2003), Crossroads of History: The Age of Alexander (with L.A. Tritle, 2003), The Wars of Alexander the Great (2002), and The Marshals of Alexander’s Empire (1992).

Lawrence A. Tritle is Professor of History at Loyola Marymount University. He is author and editor of The Peloponnesian War (2004), From Melos to My Lai. War and Survival (2000), The Greek World in the Fourth Century (1997) and Phocion the Good (1988), as well as numerous articles on Greek history.

List of Figures vii

List of Contributors viii

Chronology ix

Preface and Acknowledgments xiv

Abbreviations xv

Journal and Serial Abbreviations xvii

Map xx

Introduction 1

1 The Macedonian Background 7
Michael Zahrnt

2 Alexander’s Conquest of Asia 26
Waldemar Heckel

3 The Diadochi, or Successors to Alexander 53
Patrick Wheatley

4 A King and His Army 69
Waldemar Heckel

5 The Court of Alexander the Great as Social System 83
Gregor Weber

6 Alexander and the Greeks 99

The Corinthian League
Elisabetta Poddighe

7 Alexander and the Greeks 121

Artists and Soldiers, Friends and Enemies
Lawrence A. Tritle

8 The Empire of Darius III in Perspective 141
Pierre Briant

9 Alexander and the Persian Empire, between “Decline” and “Renovation” 171

History and Historiography
Pierre Briant

10 Alexander and his “Terrible Mother” 189
Elizabeth D. Carney

11 Alexander’s Sex Life 203
Daniel Ogden

12 Heroes, Cults, and Divinity 218
Boris Dreyer

13 Alexander’s Image in the Age of the Successors 235
Alexander Meeus

14 Roman Alexanders 251

Epistemology and Identity
Diana Spencer

15 The Construction of a New Ideal 275

The Official Portraiture of Alexander the Great
Catie Mihalopoulos

16 Power, Passion, and Patrons 294

Alexander, Charles Le Brun, and Oliver Stone
E. J. Baynham

Bibliography 311

Index 349

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