ABSTRACT
This is the practically unaltered text of a lecture given at two American and two New Zealand universities in September and October 1961. At that time there was no journal devoted to the study of Classical Antiquity in Australia or New Zealand, despite a great deal of interest, especially in Australia. The lecture was favourably received, and since modern languages were already well served by the Australasian Universities Modern Languages Association, the editor of their journal, AUMLA, suggested that it should be published in that journal. I added a few basic notes, since the readers of the article could obviously on the whole not be expected to have much knowledge of the subject. The notes are here omitted, for they will not be needed by readers of this book, both in view of their background and in view of the information amply provided in the other essays. It is the only lecture on Alexander published essentially as delivered, and I agreed to its publication with some reluctance. It is now for the reader to judge.
