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AHST 222 /322,  Lecture 1: Contact Details, Basic Bibliography

 The Career and Achievements of Alexander

Contact Details:

Dr. Chris Forbes; Room W6A 536    9850 8821, x. 8821;

Basic Bibliography:

E. Badian, "Alexander the Great and the Loneliness of Power", Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Assn. 17, 1962, 80-91 (Reserve Xerox)

E.N. Borza, In the Shadow of Olympus, ch. 9.
The Impact of Alexander the Great, Illinois 1974.

A.B. Bosworth, Conquest and Empire: the Reign of Alexander the Great, Cambridge, 1988.

A.R. Burn, Alexander and the Hellenistic Empire, London, 1947. Revised and enlarged ed: Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic World, New York 1962.

R.M. Errington, A History of Macedonia, Berkeley, 1990, ch. 2.

Peter Green, Alexander of Macedon, London, 1974, repr. Berkeley, 1991.

N.G.L. Hammond, Alexander the Great: King, Commander and Statesman, 1980, Bristol, 1994.

John Keegan, The Mask of Command, London, 1987.

R.D. Milns, Alexander the Great, New York, 1968.

J.M. O'Brien, Alexander the Great: the Invisible Enemy, London, 1992.

S. Ruzicka, "War in the Aegean, 333-331 B.C.: a Reconsideration", Phoenix, vol. 42, 1988, pp. 131-151 (Reserve Xerox).

U. Wilcken, Alexander the Great, New York, 1931, 1967.