Conquest and Empire: The Reign of Alexander the GreatCambridge University Press, 1993 M03 26 - 348 pages This book is an exploration of the process and consequences of the campaigns of Alexander the Great of Macedon (who reigned from 336 to 323 BC), focusing on the effect of his monarchy upon the world of his day. A detailed running narrative of the actual campaigns from the Danube to the Indus is complemented and enlarged upon by thematic studies on the reaction in Greece to Macedonian suzerainty, the administration of the empire, the evolution of the Macedonian army and its role as the instrument of conquest, and on the origins of the ruler cult. |
Contents
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2 The young Alexander | 19 |
The gaining of empire 336323 BC | 25 |
2 Consolidation in Europe | 28 |
3 First victory | 35 |
4 The Aegean coast summer 334 BC | 44 |
5 From Halicarnassus to Cilicia autumn 334 to summer 333 BC | 49 |
6 The campaign of Issus | 55 |
Epilogue the shape of things to come | 174 |
Thematic Studies | 183 |
A Mainland Greece in Alexanders reign | 187 |
2 Agis III of Sparta and the war for Megalopolis | 198 |
3 Athens under the administration of Lycurgus | 204 |
4 Athens and the advent of Harpalus | 215 |
5 The Exiles Decree and its effects | 220 |
B Alexander and his empire | 229 |
7 The conquest of the Syrian coast 332 BC | 64 |
8 The occupation of Egypt winter 3321 BC | 68 |
9 The campaign of Gaugamela | 74 |
10 Babylonia and Persis winter 3310 BC | 85 |
11 The occupation of Eastern Iran | 94 |
the downfall of Philotas | 101 |
13 The conquest of the Northeast Frontier | 104 |
14 The advance to India | 119 |
15 The campaign of the Hydaspes | 125 |
16 From the Hydaspes to the Southern Ocean | 130 |
17 The march through Gedrosia | 139 |
18 From Carmania to Susa | 146 |
19 The final year | 158 |
2 Financial administration | 241 |
3 The new foundations | 245 |
4 The Greeks of Asia Minor | 250 |
C Alexander and the army | 259 |
333323 BC | 266 |
3 The use of oriental troops | 271 |
4 The structure of command | 273 |
D The divinity of Alexander | 278 |
Appendices | 291 |
Bibliography | 295 |
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Achaemenid Aegean Agrianians Alexander Alexander's death allies Amyntas Antipater apparently Aristobulus Arrian Asia Minor Athenian Athens attack attested autonomy Babylon Bactria Badian battle Berve Bessus Bosworth 1980a Brunt Callisthenes campaign capital Carmania cavalry centre Cilicia Cleitus coast Coenus command common peace Companion cavalry Companions conquest continued Corinthian League court Craterus crossing cult Curt Curtius Darius defenders demos Demosthenes Diod Diodorus Ecbatana Egypt embassy empire enemy evidence exiles FGrH forces garrison Gaugamela Goukowsky Greece Hammond and Griffith Harpalus Hephaestion hipparchies honours Hydaspes hypaspists Hypereides Indian Indus infantry invasion Justin king king's Lamian later Leosthenes Lycurgus Macedon Macedonian army Memnon mercenaries military native Nearchus officers Parmenion Perdiccas Persis Philip Philotas Plut Plut./U political Porus probably proskynesis Ptolemy reign remained resistance river royal sarisae satrap Schachermeyr 1973 sent siege Siwah Sogdiana sources Spartan Strabo surrender Susa territory Thebans Thebes Thracian took tradition troops Zeus