Alexander's Portraits

Alexander 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.

↵ 1. In short

> Alexander the Great (2)

> 2.1 Youth

> 2.2 Greece

> 2.3 Asia Minor

> 2.4 Halicarnassus

> 2.5 Anatolia

> 2.6 Issus

> 2.7 The Levant

> 2.8 Egypt

> 2.9 Gaugamela

> 2.10 Persia

> Topography

> Overview

> 4.2 Self-Deification

> Chronology

> 2.11 King of Asia

> 2.12 Sogdia

> 2.13 The Punjab

> 2.14 The Indus valley

> 2.15 Kosmokrator

> 2.16 Babylon

> 2.17 Civil War

> 2.18 The Fourth Beast

> 3.1 Eastern sources

> 3.2 The Vulgate

> 3.3 Arrian's Sources

> 4.4 Last Days

> 4.1 Ancestors

> 4.3 Portraits

Portraits of Alexander the Great

The portrait that is usually considered as the most acurate, is the Azara Herm. It is supposed to be based on a portrait by Lysippus.

There are 4 items in Alexander's Portraits - azara:

Lysippus' Portrait

Here are some copies of another bust of Alexander, also identified as the one made by Lysippus.

There are 4 items in Alexander's Portraits - lysippus:

Coins and Medaillons

There are 7 items in Alexander's Portraits - medals:

Busts

There are 23 items in Alexander's Portraits - alexanders:

Cameo of Alexander and Olympias	Alexander with an Elephant's Scalp	Alexander the Great	Alexander the Great
Alexander as Kosmokrator	Alexander the Great	Priene, Alexander	Amisus, Alexander as kosmokrator
Athens, Kerameikos, Alexander with a Lion's Pelt	Praeneste, Portrait of Alexander the Great	Pella, Statue of Alexander the Great as Pan