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  • Alexander the Great : The Invisible Enemy: A Biography
  • Written by author John M. OBrien
  • Published by Routledge, 1992/08/20
  • Despite Alexander the Great's unprecedented accomplishments, during the last seven years of his life, this indomitable warrior became increasingly unpredictable, sporadically violent, megalomaniacal, and suspicious of friends as well as enemies. What coul
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Preface
Acknowledgments
Frequently cited sources in the text
List of maps
Prologue 1
1 The coming of age in Macedonia 5
Dionysus in the Royal Tombs 5
Macedonian drinking 6
Philip and Alexander 8
Olympias and Alexander 12
The Dionysiac cult in Macedonia 14
Olympias, Philip, and Alexander 16
The Gardens of Midas (343-340 BC) 19
Heroic models 21
Regent (340 BC) 23
The battle of Chaeronea (338 BC) 24
Athens (338 BC) 26
The wedding of Philip II and Cleopatra (337 BC) 28
The Pixodarus affair (336 BC) 31
The assassination of Philip II (336 BC) 34
2 A Homeric king 43
The accession (336 BC) 43
Alexander in Greece (336 BC) 46
Northern campaigns (335 BC) 49
The destruction of Thebes (335 BC) 52
Dium (335 BC) 55
Alexander's sexuality 56
Alexander at the Hellespont (334 BC) 59
The battle of the Granicus River (334 BC) 62
Asia Minor (334 BC) 65
The Gordian knot (333 BC) 70
The battle of Issus (333 BC) 75
Phoenicia (333-332 BC) 79
The siege of Tyre (332 BC) 82
Egypt (332 BC) 86
Alexandria (331 BC) 87
The journey to Siwah (331 BC) 87
The battle of Gaugamela (331 BC) 91
Babylon and Susa (331 BC) 97
3 The metamorphosis 101
The signs of change 101
The burning of Persepolis (330 BC) 105
Orientalization 111
The Philotas affair (330 BC) 117
The death of Cleitus (328 BC) 128
Proskynesis 142
Callisthenes 143
The pages' conspiracy (327 BC) 145
Nysa and Aornus (327 BC) 148
4 The ambivalent victor 155
Into "India" (326 BC) 155
The battle of the Hydaspes (Jhelum) River (326 BC) 157
"Mutiny" at the Hyphasis (Beas) River (326 BC) 164
Ocean (325 BC) 170
The Gedrosian Desert (325 BC) 179
Carmania (325-324 BC) 184
Persis (324 BC) 192
Cyrus' tomb (324 BC) 194
Susa (324 BC) 197
Deification (324 BC) 201
The Opis "mutiny" (324 BC) 204
The death of Hephaestion (324 BC) 210
5 Death in Babylon 217
The last plans (323 BC) 217
The death of Alexander (323 BC) 223
Epilogue 229
Appendix A: The Royal Tombs 231
Appendix B: Attributes of wine in Alexander the Great's readings 233
Postscript 239
Key to abbreviations of frequently cited journals 240
Notes 241
List of topics in the Bibliography 278
Bibliography 279
Index 323


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