alexander

FURTHER READING
If you are seeking additional reading, allow me to presume
to make some recommendations. Excepting the classics,
which are rewarding but difficult reading, there are some
wonderful options.
If you want a short, terrific historical chronology, you
cannot do better than E. E. Rice’s Alexander the Great. My
favorite ‘‘scholarly’’ work (I put that word in quotes because
Rice’s work is very serious scholarship, though not as
detailed as most historians may prefer) is A. B. Bosworth’s
Conquest and Empire: The Reign of Alexander the Great. A
gorgeous, picture-rich history is the publication put out by
the Getty Museum, Alan Fildes and Joann Fletcher’s Alexander
the Great: Son of the Gods. Probably the most succinct
yet best ‘‘modern’’ history is W. W. Tarn’s Alexander the
Great: Narrative, although it is hard to find.
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