The Campaigns of Alexander the Great

William J. Hamblin

 

Syllabus

Schedule

 

Key Words for First Test

Key Words for Second Test

 

Bibliography

 

Lectures

 

1. Historiography and Bibliography

 

2. Geography

 

3a. Rise of Persians

3b. Bibliography on Persia

 

4. Persian Military System

 

5. Persia in the Fourth Century

 

6. Greece before Alexander

Political Situation

Hoplite Military system

 

7. Macedonian military System

 

8. Philip

Bibliography

Chronology

Demosthenes

 

9. Chaeronea {338}

Alexander’s Youth

Chaeronea

 

10. Succession

Succession

Balkan Campaigns

 

11. Insurrection in Greece

Thebes

 

12. Granicus Campaign

Situation in Persia

Crossing to Asia

Battle of Granicus

 

13. Ionian Campaign

Ionia

Siege of Halicarnassus

Siegecraft

 

14. Naval Issues

 

15. Anatolia

Strategy

Campaign

 

16. Battle of Issus

 

17. Siege of Tyre

 

18. Alexander in Palestine

Alexander in Jewish legends (Josephus)

 

19. Alexander in Egypt

 

20. Alexander the God

 

22. Logistics

 

23. March to Gaugamela

 

24. Gaugamela

 

25. Babylon

Kingship

 

26. Persepolis

 

27. Collapse of Persia

 

28. Scythians and Nomads

 

29. To Bactria

 

30. Alexander the Tyrant

 

31. Alexander in Soghdia

Proskynesis

Plot of the Pages

 

32. Indian Military System

 

33. Alexander’s march to the Indus valley

 

34. Battle of the Hydaspes

 

35.  India; Mutiny

 

36.  Return of Alexander to Babylon

 

37.  Alexander’s future plans

Death of Alexander

 

38.  Wars of the Diodoche

 

39.  Alexander as a military genius

 

40.  The Impact of Alexander

The Legendary Alexander