ABSTRACT

This substantially revised and updated second edition of The Marshals of Alexander’s Empire (1992) examines Alexander’s most important officers, who commanded army units and were involved in military and political deliberations. Chapters on these men have been expanded, giving greater attention to personalities, bias in the sources, and the social as well as military setting, including more on familial connections and regional origins in an attempt to create a better understanding of factions. The major confrontations, military and political, are treated in greater detail within the biographies, and a discussion of the organization and command structure of the Makedonian army has been added.

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

part 1|236 pages

Part I

chapter 1|13 pages

The house of Attalos

chapter 2|14 pages

The house of Aëropos

chapter 3|11 pages

Antipatros son of Iolaos

chapter 4|16 pages

Parmenion and Philotas

chapter 5|7 pages

Black Kleitos and his relatives

The house of Dropidas

chapter 6|8 pages

Koinos son of Polemokrates

chapter 7|26 pages

Hephaistion son of Amyntor

chapter 8|6 pages

Meleagros son of Neoptolemos

chapter 9|15 pages

Leonnatos son of Anteas

chapter 10|31 pages

Krateros son of Alexandros

chapter 11|36 pages

Perdikkas son of Orontes

chapter 12|11 pages

The sons of Andromenes

chapter 13|17 pages

Polyperchon

chapter 14|13 pages

The family of Harpalos

chapter 15|11 pages

Ptolemy son of Lagos

part 2|40 pages

The instruments of power

chapter 2 a|18 pages

Alexander and the Makedonian aristocracy

chapter 2 b|21 pages

Organization of the army