Table of Contents

Brian Bosworth: Introduction
Brian Bosworth: A Tale of Two Empires: Alexander the reat and Hernán Cortés
Ernst Badian: Conspiracies
Michael Flower: Alexander the Great and Panhellenism
Ernst Fredricksmeyer: Alexander the Great and the Kingdom of Asia
Olga Palagia: Hephaestion's Pyre and Alexander's Royal Hunt
Brian Bosworth: Ptolemy and the Will of Alexander
Elizabeth Baynham: A Baleful Birth in Babylon: The Significance of the Prodigy in the Liber de Morte. An Investigation of Genre
Elizabeth Carney: Artifice and Alexander History
Richard Billows: Polybius, Alexander the Great and Hieronymous of Cardia
John Atkinson: Originality and its Limits in the Alexander Sources of the Early Empire

About the Author

A.B. Bosworth is Professor of Classics and Ancient History, University of Western Australia E.J. Baynham is Senior Lecturer, University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia

Reviews

A full bibliography and a useful index complete this valuable contribution to Alexander scholarship. In sum, the specialist and the student alike are served equally well ... highly recommended. Bryn Mawr Classical Review For those whose interest in Alexander has been stirred, as well as for students of the period, this collection must become compulsory reading. Contemporary Review