Waldemar Heckel, "Who's Who in the Age of Alexander the Great: Prosopography of Alexander's Empire"
English | 2006 | ISBN: 1405112107 | PDF | pages: 419 | 5.1 mb
English | 2006 | ISBN: 1405112107 | PDF | pages: 419 | 5.1 mb
This book contains concise biographies of over 800 individuals known from the literary and epigraphic sources for the age of Alexander.
- Covers significant figures, ranging from leading commanders in Alexander's army to the nobles and regional leaders of the Persian empire whom he encountered on his epic campaign
- The only complete collection of its kind in English
- Gives complete and balanced biographies, extending beyond the death of Alexander in 323 BC where relevant
- Contains a full index and a concordance giving the variant names found in the ancient sources