ABSTRACT
It was an odd feeling to return to this subject, forty years after treating it in an article written on a hospital bed. 1 But the subject needed a new look. Much had been written in those forty years, far more than I can hope to refer to here; and my article was in any case brief and not sufficiently clear and comprehensive. As a result, I was often cited for views rather different from the ones I tried to set out. 2 I shall now treat the subject by concentrating individually on the chief actors in the drama, which is dominated by personal interactions 3 , although space prevents me from treating all that would merit inclusion. I shall look, successively, at Olympias, Amyntas son of Perdiccas, Pausanias the assassin, Pixodarus and Alexander.
