This exciting new edition is an indispensable guide for undergraduates to the study of Alexander the Great, showing the problems of the ancient source material, and making it clear that there is no single approach to be taken.
The twelve thematic chapters contain a broad selection of the most significant published articles about Alexander, examining the main areas of debate and discussion:

The Sources

Alexander’s Influences and the Macedonian Background

Alexander’s Aims

Alexander’s Battles and Generalship

Alexander and the Greeks

Alexander and the Persian Empire

Alexander, India and the Gedrosian Desert

From Mass Marriage to Death

Alexander and the ‘Unity of Mankind’

Alexander and Deification

Alexander and Conspiracies

Alexander: The ‘Great’?

The Reader has the distinctive feature of translating a substantial number of the more inaccessible primary sources; each chapter is also prefaced with a succinct introduction to the topic under consideration.