This week we'll look at Alexander's conquest of Persia, with an emphasis on the important battles of that campaign.

1. Required readings

By Monday, please read Arrian pp. 1-26 and Sage pp. 181-191

By Wednesday, Arrian 27-56 and Sage pp. 191-196

By Friday, Arrian 57-101

2. Reccomended reading

Burn 336-348

3. Suggestions for further study

Alexander the Great has recieved more scholarly attention than perhaps any other single ancient Greek. A few worthwhile biographies include

U. Wilcken, Alexander the Great (NY 1967)

W. W. Tarn, Alexander the Great I & II (Cambridge 1948)

P. Green, Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.: a Historical Biography (Berkeley 1991)

For an account focusing on Alexander's military exploits, written not by an ancient historian but by one of the great military historian J. F. C. Fuller, The Generalship of Alexander the Great (New Brunswick, NJ 1960) [U 55 A45 F8 1981 PCL Reserves] is a good read, as is the chapter on Alexander in John Keegan's The Mask of Command (New York 1987). Also valuable for its focus on an aspect of ancient warfare that is much neglected is D. Engels' Alexander the Great and the logistics of the Macedonian army (Berkeley 1978) [DF 234.2 E53 PCL Reserves], which, incidentally, had its genesis in a paper written for an undergraduate course on Alexander right here at UT.

Those of you who enjoy historical novels might appreciate Mary Renault's Fire from Heaven (NY 1969), The Persian Boy (1972), and Funeral Games (NY 1981).