Macedonia Is Too Little

Before he had done anything, Alexander had been told by his mother that his father was a god, by his father that the kingdom was too small for him, and by a hired tutor that he was Achilles. This is the equipment he was issued.

A course on the thought of Alexander.

Philosophy · Antiquity

Course outline

1. The Boy and the Ambassadors
2. Macedonia Is Too Little
3. The Secret of His Birth
4. What Happened at Mieza
5. The Casket Copy
6. The Bastard at the Wedding
7. The Left Wing at Chaeronea
8. Four Minutes in the Theatre at Aegae

Built from

A synthesis of 9 books.

• Plutarch, Life of Alexander (Dryden)
• E. Badian, Collected Papers on Alexander the Great
• Paul Cartledge, Alexander the Great — The Hunt for a New Past
• Robin Lane Fox, Alexander the Great
• Peter Green, Alexander of Macedon
• Ian Worthington, Philip II of Macedonia
• A. B. Bosworth, Conquest and Empire
• J. F. C. Fuller, The Generalship of Alexander the Great
• Diodorus Siculus, Library of History XVI (Welles)

Part of the Simposeum course library.