The House of Ptolemy:
Foundation of the House of Ptolemy

Prolog: Foundation of the House of Ptolemy

• 10 Sep 2000
  --- Alexander the Great on the Web. A directory of pages about Alexander, the Hellenistic Age and Friends ("Alexanderama.")
  By Timothy Spalding. This page, formerly called Alexanderama, lists over 750 pages relating to Alexander the Great. The pages vary widely in scholarship and beauty, but the general level of both is quite low. The pagemaster has appended comments, occasionally sharp ones. He apologizes for any unjust offense.
  
  
• --- Perseus Historical Overview: Alexander in Egypt
  From Thomas Martin's Overview of Archaic and Classical Greek History 16.11
• --- Plutarch's Description of Alexander's arrival in Egypt
  Alexander in Egypt, Plutarch. Written ca. 75 AD
• --- Alexander the Great and the Macedonian Dynasty of Egypt
  from Egyptian Tourism Ministry site
• --- Alexander the Great in Egypt
  Two paragraph description of Alexander the Greats arrival and conquest of Egypt.
• --- Hellenistic Greece: Alexander
  One page overview: Alexander and his successors
• --- Campaigns of Alexander the Great
  Includes battle plans and maps.
• The Conquests of Alexander the Great, 323 BCE
  Originally from Tony Belmonte's site at URL http://maps.linex.com/b323gtp.gif
• --- Alexander and Darius at the Battle of Issus
  Mosaic from Pompeii (House of the Fawn). This mosaic, found in Pompeii, depicts a battle between Alexander the Great and the Persian king Darius, probably the Battle of the Issus River in November of 333 BCE. It is in opus vermiculatum, with over one and a half million tesserae, none larger than 4 mm., in four colors: white, yellow, red, and black. The minuteness of the tesserae enables incredibly fine detail and painterly effects, including remarkable portraits of Alexander and Darius. Several detailed images are provided: Overall Mosaic; Alexander; Horse; Cavalry horse; Alexander; Darius III; Right side;and a Fallen Persian. Close-up image of Alexander is here.
• --- In Search of Alexander the Great's Tomb
  By Elizabeth Kosmetatou
  
  A well written article that covers: Alexander in the Oasis of Siwa; The Location of the Tomb: Facts and Speculation; The Aftermath: The Burial of Alexander the Great.
• --- Argaeus, Ptolemy II and Alexander's Corpse
  By W.S. Greenwalt (Santa Clara University) From The Ancient History Bulletin 2.2 (1988) 39-41.
  The author argues that if Pausanias is correct in connecting the Ptolemaic Argaeus with the final burial of Alexander, that fact would both confirm the importance of the mythological Argaeus’ connection with dynastic legitimacy in Macedonia, and suggest how Ptolemy II played upon the loyalties of expatrioted Macedonians in order to cement the royal legitimacy of his house.
  See the response by Christian Habicht (The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ). From The Ancient History Bulletin 2.4 (1988) 88-89 -- response to Greenwalt.
• --- Hellenistic History Class Notes: II
  Hellenistic History Class Notes: II. What happened after the Death of Alexander the Great?

Bibliographic Notes

• --- (BMCR 97.4.8), Hammond, N G L Sources for Alexander the Great
  Hammond, N G L, Sources for Alexander the Great: An Analysis of Plutarch's Life and Arrian's Anabasis Alexandrou.
  Cambridge: 1993. Pp. xvi, 345. $64.95. ISBN 0-521-43264-2
  Reviewed by Waldemar Heckel, University of Calgary.
  Ten years after the appearance of Hammond's Three Historians of Alexander the Great, this study of Plutarch's Alexander and Arrian's Anabasis completes the 'source-critical' examination of the five major extant sources for Alexander.
  [Bryn Mawr Classical Review provides reviews of books of interest to classisists]
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• --- (BMCR 4.5.9), Heckel, W The Marshals of Alexander's Empire
  By Waldemar HeckelThe Marshals of Alexander's Empire.
  London and New York: Routledge, 1992. Pp. xxvi, 416. ISBN 0-415-05053-7
  Reviewed by Catherine Rubincam -- Erindale College, University of Toronto.
  Described as a revised and updated version of an important part of Helmut Berve's prosopography of Alexander's empire, Das Alexanderreich auf prosopographischer Grundlage (Munich 1926).
  [Bryn Mawr Classical Review provides reviews of books of interest to classisists]
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• --- (BMCR 97.4.25), Fraser, P M Cities of Alexander the Great
  by Peter M Fraser Cities of Alexander the Great.
  Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. Pp. xii + 263. $72. ISBN 0-19-815006-7
  Reviewed by Gary Reger (Trinity College).
  [Bryn Mawr Classical Review provides reviews of books of interest to classisists]
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