Edited by Waldemar Heckel and Lawrence A. Tritle Table of contents: Contributors.List of figures.Maps.Preface The Editors.1. The Macedonian Background.Michael Zahrnt.2. Alexanders Conquests.Waldemar Heckel.3. After Alexander: the Diadochoi.Patrick Wheatley.4. Alexanders Image in the Age of the Successors.Alexander Meeus.5. King and Army.Waldemar Heckel.6. The Court of Alexander as Social System.Gregor Weber.7. Alexander and the Greeks: the Corinthian League.Elisabetta Poddighe.8. Alexander and the Greeks, II: Artists and Soldiers, Friends and Enemies.Lawrence A. Tritle.9. The Empire of Darius III in Perspective.Pierre Briant.10. Alexander and the Persian Empire, between decline and renovation: History and Historiography.Pierre Briant.11. Alexander and his Terrible Mother.Elizabeth D. Carney.12. Alexanders Sex Life.Daniel Ogden.13. Heroes, Cults and Divinity.Boris Dreyer.14. The Roman Alexander.Diana Spencer.15. The Construction of a New Ideal: The Official Portraiture of Alexander the Great.Catie Mihalopoulos.16. Power, Passion and Patrons: Alexander, Charles Le Brun and Oliver Stone.E.J. Baynham.Bibliography.Index