Who's Who in the Age of Alexander the Great: Prosopography of Alexander's Empire
Copyright © 2006 Waldemar Heckel
Author(s): Waldemar Heckel
Published Online: 21 JAN 2008
Print ISBN: 9781405112109
Online ISBN: 9780470757604
DOI: 10.1002/9780470757604
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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