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COVER 1 HALF-TITLE 3 TITLE 4 COPYRIGHT 5 DEDICATION 6 CONTENTS 8 PREFACE 10 CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE 16 CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 24 CHAPTER TWO HOW DO WE KNOW? SOURCES FOR ALEXANDER THE GREAT 28 THE MAJOR LOST HISTORIANS 29 THE MAJOR EXTANT SOURCES 31 SOURCE CRITICISM 33 CHAPTER THREE THE MACEDONIAN BACKGROUND 36 THE MACEDONIAN ARMY 47 SECURING THE EUROPEAN BORDERS 51 CHAPTER FOUR THE PERSIAN ENEMY 54 THE PERSIAN EMPIRE IN THE FOURTH CENTURY 54 COMMON ENEMY OF THE GREEKS 57 PANHELLENISM 59 338–334 BC 61 CHAPTER FIVE CONQUEST OF THE ACHAEMENIDS 64 SETTING THE STAGE 64 FIRST ENCOUNTER 68 THE BATTLE OF THE GRANICUS RIVER: HISTORY AS PROPAGANDA 70 THE FIRST SIGNS OF A POLICY OF “INCLUSION” 74 FIRST WINTER IN ASIA (334/3 BC) 76 THE SECOND YEAR OF CAMPAIGNING 77 EXILES AND CONDOTTIERI 78 BATTLE OF ISSUS (333) 80 PERSIAN NAVAL POWER 88 THE SIEGE OF TYRE (JANUARY–JULY/AUGUST 332) 90 EGYPT 94 FAILURE OF NEGOTIATIONS 96 GAUGAMELA 98 THE PERSEPOLIS CAMPAIGN AND THE PANHELLENIC CRUSADE 103 EMPIRE IN TRANSITION 107 CHAPTER SIX RESISTANCE ON TWO FRONTS 110 THE USURPATION OF THE ROYAL TITLE BY BESSUS 110 THE PHILOTAS AFFAIR AND THE MURDER OF PARMENION 111 RESISTANCE IN BACTRIA AND SOGDIANA 115 SPITAME
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- Author
- Waldemar Heckel
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction