Alexander the Great

Paul Cartledge at the University of Cambridge

Rachel Mairs at the University of Reading

Diana Spencer at the University of Birmingham

Plutarch: Life of Alexander

Alexander: How Great? by Mary Beard

Perspective and Poetics in Curtius’ Gorgeous East by Diana Spencer

Alexander the Great - Wikipedia

READING LIST:

Arrian (ed. Betty Radice), The Campaigns of Alexander (Penguin Classics, 1971)

Elizabeth Carney and Daniel Ogden (eds.), Philip II and Alexander the Great: Father and Son, Lives and Afterlives (Oxford University Press, 2010)

Paul Cartledge, Alexander the Great: the Truth behind the Myth (Pan Macmillan, 2013)

Paul Cartledge & Fiona Rose Greenland (eds.), Responses to Oliver Stone’s Alexander: Film, History and Cultural Studies (University of Wisconsin Press, 2010)

K. Dahmen, The Legend of Alexander the Great on Greek and Roman Coins (Routledge, 2007)

Andrew Feldherr (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Historians (Cambridge University Press, 2009), particularly ‘Barbarians I: Quintus Curtius’ and other Roman Historians’ Reception of Alexander’ by E. Baynham

Robin Lane Fox, The Search for Alexander (Little Brown and Company, 1980)

Robin Lane Fox, The Making of Alexander: The Official Guide to the Epic Film Alexander (R & L, 2004)

Waldemar Heckel and Lawrence Tritle (eds.), Alexander the Great: A New History (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)

Rachel Mairs, The Hellenistic Far East: Archaeology, Language and Identity in Greek Central Asia (University of California Press, 2014)

Plutarch (trans. Timothy Duff and Ian Scott-Kilvert), The Age of Alexander (Penguin Classics, 2012) 

Diana Spencer, The Roman Alexander: Reading a Cultural Myth (Liverpool University Press, 2002)

Mary Renault, The Alexander Trilogy (Penguin Books, 1984)

James Romm (ed.), The Landmark Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander the Great (Anchor Books, 2012)

Quintus Curtius Rufus (ed. Waldemar Heckel), The History of Alexander (Penguin Classics, 1984)

Andrew Stewart, Faces of Power: Alexander’s Image and Hellenistic Politics (University of California Press, 1994)

Richard Stoneman, Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend (Yale University Press, 2010)

Richard Stoneman, Kyle Erickson, and Ian Netton (eds.), The Alexander Romance in Persia and the East (Barkhuis, 2012)

Ian Worthington (ed.), Alexander the Great: A Reader (Routledge, 2011)

Z. David Zuwiyya (ed.), A Companion to Alexander Literature in the Middle Ages (Brill, 2011)