ONE : The Greek World
1. A. B. Bosworth, Conquest and Empire: The Reign of Alexander the Great (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988), p. 16.
2. Ibid., p. 10.
3. Waldemar Heckel and J. C. Yardley, eds., Alexander the Great, (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2004), pp. 54–55, quoting Diodorus Siculus.
4. Ibid., pp. 56–57, quoting Quintus Curtius Rufus.
5. Plutarch, The Life of Alexander, trans. John Dryden, ed. Arthur Hugh Clough (New York: Modern Library, 2004), p. 3.
6. Peter Green, Alexander of Macedon: 356–323 BC (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974), pp. 167–68.
TWO : Who Was Alexander?
1. Heckel and Yardley, Alexander the Great, pp. 28–29.
2. Ibid., p. 46, referring to Plutarch.
3. Ibid., p. 93, referring to Plutarch.
4. Robin Lane Fox, Alexander the Great (New York: Penguin, 1973), p. 54.
5. Ibid., p. 55.
6. Ibid., p. 56.
7. Heckel and Yardley, Alexander the Great, p. 42, quoting Valerius Maximum.
8. Ibid., quoting Aelian and Arrian.
9. Green, Alexander of Macedon, p. 89.
10. Ibid., p. 105.
11. Heckel and Yardley, Alexander the Great, p. 40–41, quoting Plutarch.
12. Ibid., p. 202, quoting Plutarch.
13. Ibid., p. 197, quoting Quintus Curtius Rufus.
14. Ibid., p. 41, quoting Aelian.
15. Fox, Alexander the Great, p. 150.
16. Heckel and Yardley, Alexander the Great, p. 220, quoting Plutarch.
17. Ibid., p. 37, quoting Aelian.
18. Ibid., pp. 279–80, quoting Diodorus Siculus.
19. Ibid., pp. 280–81, quoting Quintus Curtius Rufus.
THREE : The March of Conquest
1. Green, Alexander of Macedon, p. 114.
2. Ibid., p. 117.
3. Ibid., p. 123.
4. Ibid., pp. 133–35.
5. Ibid., p. 145.
6. Ibid., p. 148.
7. Ibid., p. 162–63.
8. Heckel and Yardley, Alexander the Great, p. 90, quoting Plutarch.
9. Ibid., p. 92, quoting Plutarch and Diodorus Siculus.
10. Ibid., p. 100, quoting Arrian.
11. Fox, Alexander the Great, p. 77.
12. Green, Alexander of Macedon, p. 165.
13. Heckel and Yardley, Alexander the Great, p. 93, quoting Plutarch.
14. Green, Alexander of Macedon, p. 181.
15. Ibid., p. 185.
16. Heckel and Yardley, Alexander the Great, p. 190, Plutarch.
17. Green, Alexander of Macedon, p. 219.
18. Ibid., pp. 220, 221.
19. Heckel and Yardley, Alexander the Great, pp. 105, 106, referring to Quintus Curtius Rufus.
20. Ibid., pp. 107, 108, referring to Justin.
21. Green, Alexander of Macedon, p. 241.
22. Ibid., p. 251.
23. Ibid., p. 263, quoting the prophet Zachariah.
24. Ibid., p. 267.
25. Ibid., p. 290.
26. Heckel and Yardley, Alexander the Great, p. 120–21, referring to Quintus Curtius Rufus.
27. Fox, Alexander the Great, p. 253.
28. Green, Alexander of Macedon, p. 328–29.
29. Ibid., p. 331.
30. Fox, Alexander the Great, p. 273.
31. Ibid., p. 321.
32. Green, Alexander of Macedon, p. 335.
33. Ibid., pp. 361–64.
34. Ibid., p. 381.
35. Heckel and Yardley, Alexander the Great, pp. 123–27, referring to Arrian.
36. Ibid., pp. 128–31, referring to Arrian.
37. Fox, Alexander the Great, p. 369.
38. Heckel and Yardley, Alexander the Great, p. 269, quoting Arrian.
39. Green, Alexander of Macedon, p. 410.
FOUR : The Last Years
1. Green, Alexander of Macedon, p. 419.
2. Bosworth, Conquest and Empire, p. 138.
3. Ian Worthington, ed., Alexander the Great (New York: Routledge, 2003), p. 165.
4. Ibid., p. 164–65.
5. Green, Alexander of Macedon, p. 434–35.
6. Ibid., p. 443.
7. Ibid., p. 447.
8. Plutarch, p. 68.
9. Bosworth, Conquest and Empire, p. 171.
10. Heckel and Yardley, Alexander the Great, p. 274, quoting Plutarch.
FIVE : How “Great” Was Alexander?
1. Partha Bose, Alexander the Great’s Art of Strategy (New York: Gotham, 2003), pp. 19–20.
2. Heckel and Yardley, Alexander the Great, p. 299, quoting Livy.
3. Bosworth, Conquest and Empire, p. 181.
4. Claude Mossé, Alexander: Destiny and Myth (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004), p. 171.
5. Heckel and Yardley, Alexander the Great, p. 297–98, quoting Livy.
6. Ibid., p. 297–298.
7. Worthington, Alexander the Great, p. 166.