ABSTRACT
The expedition of Alexander, the conquest of the East by a Greek leader, and the foundation of the Macedonian Empire, shortlived though it was—that is a collection of events of capital importance in the history of antiquity. Expedition, conquest, and foundation had, on the fate of the Mediterranean world and of all Europe, an influence which is perhaps not yet exhausted, and the study of it is more fascinating and more informative even than that of the stirring events amid which the son of Philip passed his short life.
