Bibliography on Alexander

 

Primary Sources

 

1. Textual

 

Historiography

Hammond, N. G. L., Three Historians of Alexander the Great, (1988)

Bosworth, From Arrian to Alexander, (1988)

 

Bibliography

Seibert, J. Alexander der Grosse, (1972)

Seibert, J. Das Zeitalter der Diodochen (1983)

 

1.1  Lost Sources

 

Pearson, L., The Lost Histories of Alexander the Great, (New York, 1960)

FGrH 117-53

Translated: Robinson, C. A., Jr. The History of Alexander the Great, vol. 1, (Providence, RI, 1953), pp. 30-276

Callisthenes

Nearchus

Ptolemy

Aristobulus

Cleitarchus

 

 

1.2  Extant Sources

 

1. Arrian [Arrianus Flavius], {130 AD}

LCL

The Campaigns of Alexander, trans. Aubrey de Selincourt, (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971)

Indica

Bosworth, A. B. A Historical Commentary on Arrian’s History of Alexander 2 vols. (Oxford, 1980-xx)

 

2. Curtius [Quintus Curtius Rufus], {70 AD}

 

The History of Alexander, tr. John Yardley, (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984)

 

3. Diodorus [Diodorus Siculus], {50 BC}

Book 17

C. Bradford Welles, trans. Diodorus of Sicily, vol. 8, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1963)  Loeb Classical Library, #422

 

4. Plutarch {120 AD}

Parallel Lives

Plutarch, The Age of Alexander, trans. Ian Scott-Kilvert, (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973)

Hamilton, J. R. Plutarch Alexander: a Commentary, (Oxford, 1969)

 

5. Justin

Books 11-12

Justin, Epitome of the Philippic History of Pompeius Trogus, vol. 1, Books 11-12, Alexander the Great, trans. J. C. Yardley, commentary Waldemar Heckel, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997)

 

6. Oxyrenchus  Papyri

 

7. Strabo

 

8. Metz Epitome

 

Polyaenus, Strategems

 

9. Persian Sources

Brunt, P. A. “Persian accounts of Alexander’s campaigns,” CQ 12 (1962):141-155

 

2 Archaeology

 

2.1 Inscriptions

Heisserer, A. J. Alexander the Great and the Greeks, (1980)

Harding, P., From the End of the Peloponnesian War to the Battle of Ipsus, (1985), # 101 ff.

Schwenk, C. T., Athens in the Age of Lycurgus, (1985)

 

2.2 Coins

Price, M. J., The Coinage in the Name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, (1991)

 

2.3 Sculpture and Art

Bieber, M. Alexander the Great in Greek and Roman Art, (Chicago, 1964)

Brown, J. Carter, The Search for Alexander: An Exhibition, Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1980)

Ridgeway, B. G., Hellenistic Sculpture, 1 (1990), p. 108 ff.

Stewart, A. F., Faces of Power: Alexander’s Image and Hellenistic Politics, (1993)

 

2.4 Archaeology

Wheeler, Mortimer, Flames Over Persepolis, (1965)

Royal Tombs at Vergina

Tomb of Philip at Pella?

 

 

 

 

Major Biographies

 

Ashley, James R., The Macedonian Empire: The Era of Warfare Under Philip II and Alexander the Great, 359-323 BC, (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 1998)

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

Chrisp, Peter, Alexander the Great, (New York: Dorling Kindersley, 2000)

Dodge, Theodore, A., Alexander the Great, (Boston, 1890)

Duprey, Trevor N., The Military Life of Alexander the Great of Macedonia, (New York, 1969)

Fox, Robin Lane, Alexander the Great, (London, 1973)

Fuller, J. F. C., The Generalship of Alexander the Great, (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1960)

Gabriel, Richard A., The Campaigns of Alexander, (Carlisle Barracks: Department of National Security and Strategy, 1992)

Green, Peter, Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 BC: A Historical Biography, 2nd ed. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991)

Hammond, N.G.L., Alexander the Great: King, Commander and Statesman, (Park Ridge, NJ: Noyes Press, 1980)

Hammond, N.G.L., The Genius of Alexander the Great, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997)

Tarn, William Woodthorpe, Alexander the Great, 2 vols., (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1948)

Warry, John Gibson, Alexander, 324-323 BC: Conquest of the Persian Empire, (London: Osprey, 1991)

Wilken, Ulrich, Alexander the Great, trans. G. Richards, (New York, 1967 [1931])

 

 

Documentaries

“In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great,” PBS, 1999

“In Search of Alexander the Great” Michael Woods, BBC, **

 

Alexander’s Battles

 

Chaeronea

Hammond, N. G. L. “The Two Battles of Chaeronea,” Klio 31 (1938):186-218

Pritchett, W. K. “Notes on Chaeronea,” AJA 62 (1958):307-11

Rahe, P. A. “The Annihilation of the Sacred Band at Chaeronea,” AJA 85 (1981):84-87

 

Granicus

Badian, E., 'The Battle of the Granicus: A New Look', Ancient Macedonia 2 (Thessaloniki, 1977), 271-293

Davis, E. W. “The Persian Battle Plan at the Granicus,” James Sprunt Studies in History and Political Sciences, 46 (1964):34-44

Foss, C., 'The Battle of the Granicus: a New Look', Ancient Macedonia 2 (Thessaloniki, 1977), 495-502

Hammond, N.G.L., “The Battle of the Granicus River,” JHS 100 (1980), 73-88

Nikolitsis, N.T., The Battle of the Granicus (Stockholm, 1974)

 

Isus

Devine, A.M., 'Grand Tactics at the Battle of Issus', Ancient World 12 (1985), 39-59

Devine, A.M., 'The Strategies of Alexander the Great and Darius III in the Issus Campaign (333 BC)', Ancient World 12 (1985), 25-38

Hammond, N.G.L., 'Alexander's Charge at the Battle of Issus in 333 B.C.', Historia 41 (1992), 395-

Murison, J.A., 'Darius III and the Battle of Issus', Historia 21 (1972), 399-423

 

Gaugamela

Devine, A.M., 'Grand Tactics at Gaugamela', Phoenix 29 (1975), 374-385

Griffith, G.T., “Alexander's Generalship at Gaugamela,” JHS 67 (1947), 77-

Marsden, E.W., The Campaign of Gaugamela (Liverpool, 1964)

 

Hydaspes

Hamilton, J.R., “The Cavalry Battle at the Hydaspes,” JHS 76 (1956), 26-31

 

 

 

Alexander’s Sieges

 

Romane, J.P., 'Alexander's Sieges of Miletus and Halicarnassus', Ancient World 25 (1994), 61-76

 

Tyre

 

 

 

Military Studies

 

Abramenko, A., 'Alexander vor Mazagae und Aornus. Korrekturen zu den Berichten uber das Massaker an den indischen Soldnern', Klio 76 (1994), 192-207

Adcock, F. E. The Greek and Macedonian Art of War. Berkeley: University of California Press, 195 7.

Anson, E.M., 'Alexander's Hypaspists and the Argyraspids', Historia 30 (1981), 117-120

Ashley, J.R., The Macedonian empire. The era of warfare under Philip II and Alexander the Great, 359-323 BC (Jefferson, 1998)

Badian, E., 'Orientals in Alexander's Army', JHS 85 (1965), 160-161

Bengtson, Hermann, ed., The Greeks and the Persians from the Sixth to the Fourth Centuries, (New York: Delacorte Press, 1968)

Bloedow, E.F., 'On 'wagons' and 'shields': Alexander's crossing of Mount Haemus in 335 B.C.', AHB 10.3-4 (1996), 119-130

Bosworth, A.B., 'Alexander the Great and the Decline of Macedon', JHS 106 (1986), 1-12

Bosworth, A.B., 'The Tumult and the Shouting: Two Interpretations of the Cleitus Episode',AHB 10.1 (1996), 19-30

Brunt, P., 'Alexander's Macedonian cavalry', JHS 83 (1963), 27-46

Burn, A.R., 'Notes on Alexander's Campaigns, 332-330 BC', JHS 72 (1952), 81-91

Burn, A.R., 'The Generalship of Alexander', Greece and Rome (1965), 140-154

CAH 6 (1994) ch. 16, 17

Carney, E., 'Macedonians and Mutiny: Discipline and Indiscipline in the Army of Philip and Alexander', CPh 91 (1996) 19-

Daniel, T., 'The Taxeis of Alexander and the Change to Chiliarch, the Companion Cavalry and the Change to Hipparchies: A Brief Assessment', Ancient World 23.2 (1992), 43-57

Devine, A.M., 'Embolos: a study in tactical terminology', Phoenix 37 (1983), 201-217

Ellis, J.R., 'Alexander's Hypaspists again', Historia 24 (1975), 617-618

Engels, Donald W., Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army, (Berkeley, 1978)

Griffiths, G.T., 'A Note on the Hipparchies of Alexander', JHS 83 (1963), 68-74

Hammond, N.G.L. 'Alexander's Non-European Troops and Ptolemy I's Use of Such Troops', BASP 33 (1996), 99-109

Hammond, N.G.L., 'Alexander's Non-European Troops and Ptolemy I's Use of Such Troops', <BASP< I>33 (1996), 99-109

Hammond, N.G.L., 'Arrian's mentions of infantry guards',AHB 11.1 (1997), 20-24

Hammond, N.G.L., 'Casualties and Reinforcements of Citizen Soldiers in Greece and Macedonia., JHS 109 (1989), 56-68

Hammond, N.G.L., 'Some Passages in Polyaenus Stratagems Concerning Alexander', GRBS 37 (1996), 23-53

Hammond, N.G.L., 'The Various Guards of Philip II and Alexander III', Historia 40 (1991), 396-417

Hammond, N.G.L., The Macedonian State: Origins, Institutions and History, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989)

Hauben, H., 'The Command Structure in Alexander's Mediterranean Fleets', Ancient Society 3 (1972), 55-65

Hauben, H., 'The Expansion of Macedonian Sea-Power under Alexander the Great', Ancient Society 7 (1976), 82-87

Heckel, W., The Marshals of Alexander's Empire (London: Routledge, 1992)

Holt, F. L., Alexander in Bactria, (1988)

Keegan, John, The Mask of Command, (New York: Viking, 1987)

Lock, R.A,, 'The origins of the argyraspids', Historia 26 (1977), 40-64

Markle, M. M., “Macedonian arms and tactics under Alexander the Great,” Macedonia and Greece in Late Classical and Early Hellenistic Times, (Studies in the Hiistory of Art 10, Washington DC 1982), pp. 87-111.

McCrindle, John W., The Invasion of India by Alexander the Great, (“Westminster: Archibald Constable, 1896; reprint, vol. 14 in Indian Historical Researches, (New Delhi: Cosmo Publications, 1990)

Milns, R.D., 'Alexander's Macedonian Cavalry and Diodorus 17.17.4', JHS 86 (1966), 167-8

Milns, R.D., 'Alexander's Seventh Phalanx Battalion', GRBS 7 (1966), 159-166

Milns, R.D., 'Asthippoi again', CQ 31 (1981), 347-354

Milns, R.D., 'The Army of Alexander the Great', Fondation Hardt (Entretiens Hardt) 22 (1976), 87-136

Milns, R.D., 'The Hypaspists of Alexander III: some problems', Historia 20 (1971), 186-195

Sekunda, N., The Army of Alexander the Great, Men-at-Arms 148, (London: Osprey, 1992)

Tarn, W. W., Hellenistic Military and Naval Developments, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1930)

Zahrnt, M., 'Alexanders Übergang über den Hellespont', Chiron 26 (1996), 129-147