List of Figures vii List of Contributors viii Chronology ix Preface and Acknowledgments xiv Abbreviations xv Journal and Serial Abbreviations xvii Map xx Introduction 1 1 The Macedonian Background 7 Michael Zahrnt 2 Alexander's Conquest of Asia 26 Waldemar Heckel 3 The Diadochi, or Successors to Alexander 53 Patrick Wheatley 4 A King and His Army 69 Waldemar Heckel 5 The Court of Alexander the Great as Social System 83 Gregor Weber 6 Alexander and the Greeks 99 The Corinthian League Elisabetta Poddighe 7 Alexander and the Greeks 121 Artists and Soldiers, Friends and Enemies Lawrence A. Tritle 8 The Empire of Darius III in Perspective 141 Pierre Briant 9 Alexander and the Persian Empire, between "Decline" and "Renovation" 171 History and Historiography Pierre Briant 10 Alexander and his "Terrible Mother" 189 Elizabeth D. Carney 11 Alexander's Sex Life 203 Daniel Ogden 12 Heroes, Cults, and Divinity 218 Boris Dreyer 13 Alexander's Image in the Age of the Successors 235 Alexander Meeus 14 Roman Alexanders 251 Epistemology and Identity Diana Spencer 15 The Construction of a New Ideal 275 The Official Portraiture of Alexander the Great Catie Mihalopoulos 16 Power, Passion, and Patrons 294 Alexander, Charles Le Brun, and Oliver Stone E. J. Baynham Bibliography 311 Index 349.