Plutarch, Parallel Lives: Life of Alexander
Diodorus Siculus, History (Book XVII for Alexander’s reign; but also XVI and XVIII for events preceding and following)
Justin, Epitome of Trogus
Additional biographical details or anecdotes
Plutarch, Lives: Demosthenes; Eumenes; Phocion
Plutarch, Moralia: On the Fortune or Virtue of Alexander; Sayings of Kings and Commanders
Strabo, Geography (Book XV for many quotations from Nearchus)
Athenaeus, The Diepnosophists (discursive gossip)
L. Pearson, The Lost Histories of Alexander the Great (collected fragments, with commentary on the writers). American Philological Association, New York; also printed in Great Britain 1960
Works relevant to Alexander’s life and times
Demosthenes, Orations
Aeschines, Orations
Isocrates, Epistles and Orations
Aristotle, especially the Politics and Ethics
Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers: Life of Aristotle
Works known to Alexander, which certainly or probably influenced his thought
Homer, Iliad R. Lattimore’s verse translation, published by University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London 1962, is preferable to E. V. Rieu’s prosy one, published by Penguin Books, Harmondsworth 1950)
Xenophon, Anabasis; Cyropaedia
Herodotus, History
Euripides, Tragedies (especially, perhaps, The Bacchae, written and first performed in Macedon)
For the legend
E. A. Wallis Budge, The Alexander Book in Ethiopia. Oxford University Press. London 1933
George Cary, The Mediaeval Alexander, ed. D. J. A. Ross. Cambridge University Press. London 1956
A. M. Wolohojian (trans.), The Romance of Alexander the Great by Pseudo-Callisthenes (a recent translation from a good Armenian version). Columbia University Press. New York and London 1969
H. W. Clarke’s quaint literal translation (1880) of the thirteenth-century Persian Sikandar Noma E Bora is unfortunately scarce.
Index
A | B | C | D | E
F | G | H | I | J
K | L | M | N | O
P | R | S | T
U | V | W | X | Z
Abdalonymus, 111
Abreas, 207, 208
Academy (Plato’s), 39, 40, 54, 188
Achilles, 6, 22, 24, 28-9, 44, 75, 90, 113, 118, 202, 208, 240, 241, 247, 257
Ada (Queen of Caria), 27, 94-5, 97
Admetus, 115
Aegae, 5, 62, 146
Aelian, 33
Aeschines, 49, 67
Agriani, 77, 80, 102, 136
Alcibiades, 39, 232
Alexander III, the Great: accession, 30, 63, 69; ancestry, 24, 28, 121-2; army, 25, 30, 93, 98, 101-2, 127-8, 141-2, 149, 166-7, 200-12, 233-5, 263-4; in Athens, 54; Athens’ submission, 86; attitude towards killing, 65-6, 128, 180-1; at Babylon, 139-41, 248-66; in Bactria, 168-9, 185; and Bagoas (q.v.), 154-5, 161, 185, 186, 220, 222, 223; battle tactics, 78, 101-2, 133, 134; birth, 22; birth legends, 8, 22, 24, 122, 231; books, 28, 71-3, 128, 142; and Bucephalas (q.v.), 33-4, 102, 138, 158, 198; Callisthenes’ murder, 187-8; in Caria, 94-7; Cleitus’ murder, 180-1; at Chaeronea (q.v.), 51-3; childhood, 23-4, 29, 30; daily routine, 125-9; at Damascus, 109-10; and Darius III (q.v.), 108-9, 132, 149-57; death, 4, 266; Demosthenes’ view, 68, 82; divinity, 5, 6, 7, 12, 119, 121-2, 174, 230-1; at Dodona, 57; drinking habits, 128-9, 179-80, 239-40, 262-3; early court duties, 29-30; at Ecbatana, 239-44; education, 26-7, 39-43, 44, 46; in Egypt, 118-23; at Ephesus, 94; Exile’s Decree, 231-2, 249; explorative urge, 78, 189, 254; father (Philip II, q.v.), 26, 33, 34, 45-6, 54, 55-6, 58-65; first colony, 45; friendships, 26, 44, 48-9, 58, 66, 80, 99, 113-14, 128, 141, 143, 162; funeral cortège, 5-6; at Gaugamela, 34, 132-9; at Gaza, 117; Gordian knot, 98-9; at the Granicus, 90-3; half-brother (see Arridaeus); at Halicarnassus, 96-7; and Hephaestion (q.v.), 43-4, 48, 54, 60, 90, 104, 105, 121, 126, 162, 185, 186, 193, 240-4, 251-3; Hermolaus’ plot; historians’ views; humor; at the Hydaspes; identification with Achilles (q.v.); illnesses & injuries, 99, 104, 117, 118, 171, 172, 207-9, 256, 257-66; in Illyria, 57-58; Illyrian campaigns, 47-8, 80-1; in India, 188 ft.; inheritance, 89; at the Issus, 99-107; at the Jaxartes, 171-2; legends, 7-16, 72, 182; on the Makran desert, 215-20; at Miletus, 95-6; mother (Olympias, q.v.), 23-4, 32, 48, 55, 56-7, 58, 59, 63, 64, 121, 126, 237; at Multan, 206-10; musical interests, 32-3, 38-9, 70, 90; omens. 89, 95, 96, 117, 119, 144, 202, 245, 246-7, 254-6, 258, 261; at Opis, 233-7; oracles consulted, 57, 120-21, 258; at Persepolis, 145-9, 223-4; Persian King, 172-8, 229-30; Philotas’ plot, 162-6; physical appearance & dress, 26, 27, 68-70, 92, 160; and Ptolemy (q.v.), 5-7, 30-2; purge of rivals, 73-5; quoted, 37, 46, 55-6, 70, 89, 103, 104, 109, 116, 133, 197-8, 234, 235, 253, 266; re-founding of Stagira, 46; as regent, 44-5, 46-7, 62; regents for, 10, 237; river crossings—Hydaspes, 195-6—Indus, 193, 211—Ister, 78-80—Oxus, 169-70—Tigris, 130-1; sacrifices & offerings, 27-8, 80, 87, 89, 90, 93-4, 112, 119, 122, 123, 125, 131, 134, 144, 202, 205, 213, 222, 262; at Sardis, 93-4; sexual nature, 48, 55, 70, 88, 95, 155, 184-5, 239; at Sidon, 110-12, 113, 114; Sikandar myth, 8, 9; sister (see Cleopatra); and Sisygambis (q.v.), 104-5, 106, 132, 144; in Sogdiana, 182-5, 190; the Successors, 229-30, 235; at Susa, 142-4, 224-32, 248; at Tarsus, 99; theatrical interest, 70, 71, 123; Theban campaign, 82-6; in Thessaly, 75; tomb, 6-7; Triballians defeated, 77; at Troy, 89-90; at Tyre, 112, 114-15, 123; wealth & financial arrangements, 82, 89, 93, 96, 103, 110, 123-4, 140-1, 142-4, 146, 157, 227, 228, 229, 238; weddings, 183-4, 225-7; wives—Roxane (q.v.), 183-5, 186, 190, 193, 204, 239—Barsine-Stateira (q.v.), 109-10, 226, 227
Alexander IV, 10, 250, 268
Alexander’s Feast (Dryden), 17
Alexandreis, 16
Alexandria, 6, 7, 31, 121, 126, 242, 248, 258
Alexandros (King of Epirus), 39, 57, 61, 245
Alexandros (of Lyncestis), 74, 82, 98, 99, 164
Amazons, 9, 28, 239
Ammon, 5, 8, 119, 120-1, 179, 202, 213, 231, 243, 248, 256, 258
Amphissa, 47, 49, 54
Amyntas, 73
Amyntor, 243
Anaxarchus, 174
Andromache, 22
Antigone, 122
Antigonus One-Eye, 260, 261
Antipater, 10, 45, 47, 83, 86, 88, 112, 126, 159, 232, 237, 248, 249, 250, 260, 261
Aornus, 192
Apelles, 69
Aphrodite, 181, 231
Apis, 119, 243
Apollo, 17, 47, 115
Apollodorus, 244-5, 247
Arbela, 130, 138
Aristander, 117
Aristobulus, 13-14, 128, 129, 187, 218, 219, 222, 227, 247, 254, 256, 262
Aristotle, 10, 11, 39-43, 46, 48, 54, 60, 64, 72, 73, 107, 108, 131, 142, 158, 159, 175, 185, 237, 260
Aristoxenus, 70
Arrian (Flavius Arrianus), 13-14, 16, 30-1, 34, 69, 78, 83-4, 85, 91, 93, 94, 97, 98, 100, 101, 102, 104, 115, 119-20, 121, 134, 144, 147, 148, 155, 164, 166, 174, 187, 194, 198, 201, 207, 209, 211, 212, 215, 217-18, 219, 220, 224, 226, 234, 235-6, 237, 238, 239, 241, 242-3, 245, 246, 247, 250, 258, 259, 265