Waldemar Heckel (editor) - Alexander the Great: A New History

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Alexander the Great : a new history / edited by Waldemar Heckel and Lawrence A. Tritle.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4051-3081-3 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-4051-3082-0 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1. Alexander, the Great, 356-323 B.C. 2. Greece-History-Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C. 3. Greece-Kings and rulers-Biography. 4. Generals-Greece-Biography. I. Heckel, Waldemar, 1949- II. Tritle, Lawrence A., 1946
DF234.A4857 2009
938.07092-dc22 [B]

2008026394

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Contributors

E. J. Baynham, Professor of Classics and Ancient History, University of Newcastle Pierre Briant, Professor of History, Collge de France, Paris Elizabeth D. Carney, Professor of History, Clemson University, South Carolina Boris Dreyer, Ancient History Seminar, University of Gttingen Waldemar Heckel, Professor of Ancient History, University of Calgary Alexander Meeus, Faculty of Arts, Ancient History, Catholic University of Louvain

Catie Mihalopoulos, Assistant Professor of Art and Archaeology, California State

University, Channel Islands Daniel Ogden, Department of Classics, University of Exeter

Elisabetta Poddighe, Department of Classical Philology and Ancient History,

University of Cagliari Diana Spencer, Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity, University of Birmingham

Lawrence A. Tritle, Professor of History, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles

Gregor Weber, Professor and Chair of Ancient History, University of Augsburg Patrick Wheatley, Lecturer, Department of Classics, University of Otago Michael Zahrnt, Emeritus Professor of Ancient History, University of Cologne

Chronology

All dates are BC unless indicated otherwise.