1st Edition

Collected Papers on Alexander the Great

By Ernst Badian Copyright 2012
560 Pages
by Routledge

560 Pages
by Routledge

560 Pages
by Routledge

Professor Ernst Badian (1925-2011) was one of the most influential Alexander historians of the twentieth century. His first articles on the subject appeared in 1958, and he continued for a full fifty years to reshape scholarly perception of the reign of Alexander the Great. A steady output of articles was reinforced by lectures and reviews in his own formidable style. Badian's earliest work... Read more

Foreword by Richard Stoneman  Introduction by Eugene Borza  1. Alexander the Great and the Unity of Mankind  2. The Eunuch Bagoas  3. The Death of Parmenio  4. Review of L. Pearson, The Lost Histories of Alexander the Great  5. Harpalus  6. Alexander the Great and the Loneliness of Power  7. The Death of Philip II  8. The Date of Clitarchus  9. Orientals in Alexander’s Army  10. Alexander the Great and the Greeks of Asia  11. Agis III  12. A King’s Notebooks  13. Nearchus the Cretan  14. Review of K. Kraft, Der "rationale Alexander"  15. The Battle of the Granicus  16. The deification of Alexander the Great  17. Greeks and Macedonians  18. Alexander at Peucelaotis  19. The Ring and the Book  20. Agis III: revisions and reflections  21. Alexander the Great between two thrones and heaven  22. The King’s Indians  23. A note on the Alexander Mosaic  24. Conspiracies  25. Darius III  26. Plutarch’s Unconfessed Skill  27. Once more the death of Philip II  Index

Biography

Ernst Badian was John Moors Cabot Professor of History (Emeritus) at Harvard University, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 1999 he received the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art. In 1974 he was instrumental in founding the Association of Ancient Historians, the largest and most influential society for the study of ancient history in North America.

Eugene M. Borza is Professor Emeritus, Pennsylvania State University, USA.