Pat Wheatley is Associate Professor of Ancient History at the University of Otago, New Zealand.Elizabeth Baynham is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Newcastle, Australia.

There is a great deal to like in this wide-ranging and erudite volume, and precious little to criticise ... and the quality of the scholarship is manifest ... this volume represents a refreshingly different, and deeply necessary, approach to all that surrounds the Macedonian conqueror.

• Preface ; Acknowledgements ; List of Contributors ; List of Maps and Illustrations ; List of Abbreviations ; Brian Bosworth: An Appreciation ; Works by A. B. Bosworth ; 1. MHNIN AEIDELTAE THETAAE: Alexander the Great and the Anger of Achilles ; 2. Alexander, Achilles, and Heracles: Between Myth and History ; 3. Callisthenes and Alexander the Invincible God ; 4. Why the Devil wears Prada: The Politics of Display in Military Kit in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BC ; 5. Alexander at the Beas ; 6. Alexander the Great and the Mechanici ; 7. From East to West: Alexander and the Exiles Decree ; 8. Craterus Revisited ; 9. Nectanebo's Seduction of Olympias and Benign Anguiform Deities of the Ancient Greek World ; 10. Cleopatra-Eurydice, Olympias, and a 'Weak' Alexander ; 11. Dynastic Loyalty and Dynastic Collapse in Macedonia ; 12. King Ptolemy: Centre and Periphery ; 13. The Crowned Ram's Head on Coins of Alexander the Great and the Rule of Ptolemy as Satrap of Egypt ; 14. Diadoch Chronography after Philip Arrhidaeus: Old and New Evidence ; 15. Polis Hellenis ; 16. Thapsacus and Zeugma ; 17. Valerius Maximus and His Presentation of Alexander the Great ; 18. Tacitus and the Crises of Empire ; 19. Legitimizing an Emperor: The Solidus of Alexander III ; Bibliography

Pat Wheatley is Associate Professor of Ancient History at the University of Otago, New Zealand.Elizabeth Baynham is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Newcastle, Australia.

There is a great deal to like in this wide-ranging and erudite volume, and precious little to criticise ... and the quality of the scholarship is manifest ... this volume represents a refreshingly different, and deeply necessary, approach to all that surrounds the Macedonian conqueror.

• Preface ; Acknowledgements ; List of Contributors ; List of Maps and Illustrations ; List of Abbreviations ; Brian Bosworth: An Appreciation ; Works by A. B. Bosworth ; 1. MHNIN AEIDELTAE THETAAE: Alexander the Great and the Anger of Achilles ; 2. Alexander, Achilles, and Heracles: Between Myth and History ; 3. Callisthenes and Alexander the Invincible God ; 4. Why the Devil wears Prada: The Politics of Display in Military Kit in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BC ; 5. Alexander at the Beas ; 6. Alexander the Great and the Mechanici ; 7. From East to West: Alexander and the Exiles Decree ; 8. Craterus Revisited ; 9. Nectanebo's Seduction of Olympias and Benign Anguiform Deities of the Ancient Greek World ; 10. Cleopatra-Eurydice, Olympias, and a 'Weak' Alexander ; 11. Dynastic Loyalty and Dynastic Collapse in Macedonia ; 12. King Ptolemy: Centre and Periphery ; 13. The Crowned Ram's Head on Coins of Alexander the Great and the Rule of Ptolemy as Satrap of Egypt ; 14. Diadoch Chronography after Philip Arrhidaeus: Old and New Evidence ; 15. Polis Hellenis ; 16. Thapsacus and Zeugma ; 17. Valerius Maximus and His Presentation of Alexander the Great ; 18. Tacitus and the Crises of Empire ; 19. Legitimizing an Emperor: The Solidus of Alexander III ; Bibliography

Pat Wheatley is Associate Professor of Ancient History at the University of Otago, New Zealand.Elizabeth Baynham is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Newcastle, Australia.

There is a great deal to like in this wide-ranging and erudite volume, and precious little to criticise ... and the quality of the scholarship is manifest ... this volume represents a refreshingly different, and deeply necessary, approach to all that surrounds the Macedonian conqueror.

• Preface ; Acknowledgements ; List of Contributors ; List of Maps and Illustrations ; List of Abbreviations ; Brian Bosworth: An Appreciation ; Works by A. B. Bosworth ; 1. MHNIN AEIDELTAE THETAAE: Alexander the Great and the Anger of Achilles ; 2. Alexander, Achilles, and Heracles: Between Myth and History ; 3. Callisthenes and Alexander the Invincible God ; 4. Why the Devil wears Prada: The Politics of Display in Military Kit in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BC ; 5. Alexander at the Beas ; 6. Alexander the Great and the Mechanici ; 7. From East to West: Alexander and the Exiles Decree ; 8. Craterus Revisited ; 9. Nectanebo's Seduction of Olympias and Benign Anguiform Deities of the Ancient Greek World ; 10. Cleopatra-Eurydice, Olympias, and a 'Weak' Alexander ; 11. Dynastic Loyalty and Dynastic Collapse in Macedonia ; 12. King Ptolemy: Centre and Periphery ; 13. The Crowned Ram's Head on Coins of Alexander the Great and the Rule of Ptolemy as Satrap of Egypt ; 14. Diadoch Chronography after Philip Arrhidaeus: Old and New Evidence ; 15. Polis Hellenis ; 16. Thapsacus and Zeugma ; 17. Valerius Maximus and His Presentation of Alexander the Great ; 18. Tacitus and the Crises of Empire ; 19. Legitimizing an Emperor: The Solidus of Alexander III ; Bibliography