Table of Contents
List of Maps and Figures ix
Chronology x
Introduction "Some Talk of Alexander" 1
Part 1 Philip II
Chapter 1 In the Beginning 15
Chapter 2 Crisis 29
Chapter 3 Macedonian, Greek, and Barbarian 47
Chapter 4 Alliances and Wives 69
Chapter 5 War and Its Price 79
Chapter 6 "I Did Not Run Away": Defeat in Thessaly 93
Chapter 7 The Avenger 105
Chapter 8 Peace 119
Chapter 9 The Prince 133
Chapter 10 Old and New Enemies 151
Chapter 11 Chaeronea 163
Chapter 12 Love and Persia 179
Chapter 13 "Wreathed Is the Bull": Passion, Ambition, and Revenge 193
Part 2 Alexander and Persia
Chapter 14 The Example 209
Chapter 15 The Army and the Enemy 225
Chapter 16 The River 243
Chapter 17 The Gordian Knot 261
Chapter 18 "Then Truly There Was Great Bloodshed": The Battle of Issus, 333 BC 275
Chapter 19 "Manifestly a Large Task": The Siege of Tyre 291
Chapter 20 An Oasis and a God 307
Chapter 21 The Battle of Gaugamela 319
Chapter 22 "The Most Hateful of the Cities of Asia" 337
Chapter 23 An End and a Beginning 349
Chapter 24 The Upright Tiara 367
Part 3 Lord of Asia
Chapter 25 The Sword and the Flame 381
Chapter 26 "Poorer for a Kiss" 397
Chapter 27 India 411
Chapter 28 Victory into Retreat 431
Chapter 29 Sea and Sand 449
Chapter 30 The Return of the King 461
Chapter 31 "An Utter Loss" 477
Epilogue Tears and a Broken Nose 495
Appendix 1 The Main Sources 511
Appendix 2 The Royal Tombs 515
Acknowledgments 519
Bibliography 521
Notes 531
Index 563