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Alexander the Great: Table of Contents

All Articles Short biography Chronology of Alexander' reign  Life of Alexander 1: Youth (356-336)  Plutarch on the birth of Alexander  Plutarch on Bucephalus  Plutarch on Alexander and the Persian envoys  Plutarch on Aristotle and Alexander  Aristotle on Persian court life  Diodorus on the battle of Chaeronea  The Corinthian League  Diodorus on…

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Alexander's Ancestors

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…

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Almyros, Archaeological Museum

In the late 1980s, I was working at the excavation of Hellenistic Halos, a heavily fortified port in southeastern Thessaly. Although I soon discovered that I lacked the qualities to be a good archaeologist, I usually enjoyed my work and…

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Amorges

Our main source for the history of the Peloponnesian War is the Athenian author Thucydides, but he sometimes makes mistakes. One of these is a blind eye for Persian influence on the war. As a consequence, he underestimated the importance…

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