Essays on Alexander the Great

lexander the Great (*356; r. 336-323): the Macedonian king who defeated his Persian colleague Darius III Codomannus and conquered the Achaemenid Empire. During his campaigns, Alexander visited a.o. Egypt, Babylonia, Persis, Media, Bactria, the Punjab, and the valley of the Indus. In the second half of his reign, he had to find a way to rule his newly conquered countries. Therefore, he made Babylon his capital and introduced the oriental court ceremonial, which caused great tensions with his Macedonian and Greek officers.
 

Essays:

• Chronology of Alexander' reign 
• The Azara herm
• Topography
• Alexander the god 
• What happened at Gaugamela?
• The battle of the Jaxartes
• Alexander's final days: a Babylonian perspective (version in Farsi)
• Sources on Alexander 1: the oriental texts
• A dubious source: the Dynastic prophecy 
• A dubious source: the third Sibylline oracle 
• Sources on Alexander 2: the 'vulgate' tradition 
• Sources on Alexander 3: the 'good' tradition 
• Alexander's towns 
• Alexander's ancestors 

Reviews:

• The good, the bad, and the prejudiced: Oliver Stone's Alexander
• Review of Heckel & Yardley, Alexander the Great (2004)
• Review of Holt, Into the Land of Bones (2005)