PHILIP’S PALACE IN MACEDONIA

THE YOUNG ALEXANDER (RECONSTRUCTED)

ALEXANDER AND BUCEPHALUS

THE SCHOOL WHERE FOR THREE YEARSARISTOTLE TUTORED ALEXANDER

ARISTOTLE AND A MANUSCRIPT FRAGMENT WITH THE WORDS “PHILOSOPHOS” AND “EPITOME”

MACEDONIAN MOSAIC OF LION HUNT

HEPHAESTIONALEXANDER’SCOMPANION

ASSASSINATION OF PHILIP 336 B.C.ADVANCE FORCE OF 10,000

ALREADY ACROSS HELLESPONT

ALEXANDERAGAINSTPERSIA

MACEDONIA TO

EGYPT334 B.C.

TOSPRING 331 B.C.

ALEXANDER IS SAID TO BE DESCENDED FROM ACHILLES, THE YOUNG HERO OF HOMER’S ILIAD.

ON THE JOURNEY ALEXANDER SLEEPS WITH THE ILIAD AND A DAGGER

BENEATH HIS PILLOW.

IN ASIA, IN A GESTURE OF SYMBOLIC IDENTIFICATION, ALEXANDER STOPS FIRST WHERE THE GREEKS IN THE ILIAD DESTROYED TROY. ALEXANDER’S IS THE ARMY OF HOMER’S GREEK HEROES REBORN.

Battle of River Granicus May 334 B.C.

PERSIANAND

GREEKFOOT

SOLDIERS

PERSIAN CAVALRY IN DEFENSIVE FORMATION, PERSIAN INFANTRY AND

THE MACEDONIAN PHALANX

ALEXANDER VS. DARIUS III AT THE BATTLE OF THE ISSUS 333 B.C.

ALEXANDER

DARIUS III KING OF THE PERSIANS