pt. 1. disc 1. Lectures 1-6. Alexander the Great-conqueror or tyrant? -- Greece in the age of Hegemonies -- Achaemenid Persia -- The world of early Macedon -- Philip II and the Macedonian way of war -- The third sacred war -- pt. 1. disc 2. Lectures 7-12. The Macedonian conquest of Greece -- The league of Corinth -- Alexander, heir apparent -- Securing the inheritance, 336-335 B.C. -- The invasion of Asia -- The battle of the Granicus.
pt. 2. disc 3. Lectures 13-18. The turning point-Issus and Tyre -- Alexander, pharaoh of Egypt -- Heroes, oracles, and the gods -- The campaign of Gaugamela -- The conquest of Iran -- Alexander on the rim of the world -- pt. 2. disc 4. Lectures 19-24. Governing and taxing the empire -- Alexander and the Macedonian opposition -- Lecture 21. The invasion of India -- The battle of the Hydaspes -- Mutiny and withdrawal -- The Gedrosian Desert and voyage of Nearchus.
pt. 3. disc 5. Lectures 25-30. Deification and succession -- Alexander and the Macedonians-Opis -- Alexander and the Greeks-The Lamian War -- The Diadochoi, 323-316 B.C. -- The partition of the empire, 316-301 B.C. -- The Hellenistic concert of powers -- pt. 3. disc 6. Lectures 31-36. Macedonian courts in the Near East -- The Hellenization of the Near East -- The monetization of the Near East -- Hellenization and the gods -- The limits of Hellenization -- Alexander the Great and the shadow of Rome.
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