RESOURCE GUIDE
Booth Library Eastern Illinois University
Alexander the Great
A Selected List of Resources
Booth Library has a large collection of learning resources to support the study of Alexander the Great by undergraduates, graduates and faculty. These materials are held in the reference collection, the main book holdings, the journal collection and the online full-text databases. Books and journal articles from other libraries may be obtained using interlibrary loan.
This is a subject guide to selected works in this field that are held by the library. The citations on this list represent only a small portion of the available literature owned by Booth Library. Additional materials can be found by searching the EIU Online Catalog.
To find books, browse the shelves in these call numbers for the following subject areas:
DE1 to DE100 History of the Greco-Roman World DF10 to DF951 History of Greece DF10 to DF289 Ancient Greece DF232.5 to DF233.8 Macedonian Epoch. Age of Philip. 359-336 B.C. DF234 to DF234.9 Alexander the Great, 336-323 B.C. DF235 to DF238.9 Hellenistic Period, 323-146.B.C.
REFERENCE SOURCES Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic World ………………………………………. Ref DE86 .C35 2006 Encyclopedia of the Ancient Greek World ……………………………………………… Ref DF16 .S23 1995 Who’s Who in the Greek World ……………………………………………………….. Stacks DE7.H39 2000
PLEASE REFER TO COLLECTION LOCATION GUIDE FOR LOCATION OF ALL MATERIALS ALEXANDER THE GREAT Alexander and His Successors ………………………………………………... Stacks DF234 .A44 2009x Alexander and the Hellenistic World ………………………………………………… Stacks DE83 .W43 Alexander the Conqueror: The Epic Story of the Warrior King ………………... Stacks DF234.F67 2004 Alexander the Great (Freeman) ………………………………………………... Stacks DF234 .F74 2011 Alexander the Great (Green) …………………………………………………... Stacks DF234 .G68 1970 Alexander the Great (Tarn) ………………………………………………………….… Stacks DF234 .T3 Alexander the Great (Wilcken) ……………………………………………………. Stacks DF234 .W71x Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend ……………………………………... Stacks PN687.A5 S76 2008 Alexander the Great: A New History………………………………………… Stacks DF234 .A4857 2009 Alexander the Great: A Reader ……………………………………………... Stacks DF234 .A4894 2003 Alexander the Great: A Reader (2nd edition) …………………………………. Stacks DF234 .A486 2012 Alexander the Great and His Empire: A Short Introduction …………….. Stacks DF234.37 .B7413 2010 Alexander the Great Failure: The Collapse of the Macedonian Empire …….... Stacks DF233 .G65 2007 Alexander the Great in Fact and Fiction …………………………………... Stacks DF234.2 .A394 2000 Alexander the Great: Journey to the End of the Earth ………………………… Stacks DF234 .C26 2005 Alexander the Great: Man and God …………………………………………. Stacks DF234 .W67 2004x Alexander the Great: Themes and Issues ……………………………………… Stacks DF234 .A67 2013 Conquest and Empire: The Reign of Alexander the Great …………………….. Stacks DF234 .B66 1988 Macedonian State: Origins, Institutions, and History …………………….. Stacks DF261 .M2 H35 1989 Marshals of Alexander’s Empire …………………………………………….. Stacks DF234.2 .H38 1992 Who’s Who in the Age of Alexander the Great: Prosopography of Alexander’s Empire ……………………………… Stacks DF234.2 .H39 2006
HISTORY OF ANCIENT GREECE Ancient Greece: A History in Eleven Cities …………………………………….. Stacks DF77 .C34 2009 Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times ……………………….... Stacks DF77 .M3 1996 Ancient Greeks: New Perspectives …………………………………………….... Stacks DF77 .B92 2004 Atlas of the Greek World ……………………………………………………….. Stacks DF77 .L43 1991x Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece ……………………………..... Stacks DF77 .C32 1998 Classical Greece, 500-323 BC ………………………………………………….. Stacks DF214 .C5 2000 Companion to the Classical Greek World ……………………………………... Stacks DF214 .C58 2006 Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire …………………………………. Stacks DF235.4 .R66 2011 Greek Civilization: An Introduction …………………………………………… Stacks DF77 .G793 1998 Greek Mythology: An Introduction ……………………………………...… Stacks BL782 .G6713 1996x Greek World After Alexander, 323-30 BC ……………………………………... Stacks DF235. S54 2000 Greek Homosexuality ……………………………………………………… Stacks HQ76.3.G8 D68 1978 Greek Way of Death ………………………………………………………. Stacks BL795.D4 G37 2001x Rise and Fall of Classical Greece ……………………………………………..… Stacks DF77.O24 2015 Wandering Greeks: The Ancient Greek Diaspora from the Age of Homer to the Death of Alexander the Great ……………………….. Stacks DF222.2.G37 2014 Writing Ancient History: An Introduction to Classical Historiography ………… Stacks D56 .P58 2009x
ALEXANDER THE GREAT AND RELATED INDIVIDUALS AND PLACES Ancient Persia: A Concise History of the Achaemenid Empire, 550-330 BCE …………………………………………………………... Stacks DS281 .W38 2014
(Alexander the Great and Related Individuals and Places, cont. on page 3)
PLEASE REFER TO COLLECTION LOCATION GUIDE FOR LOCATION OF ALL MATERIALS Aristotle: His Life and School …………………………………………………. Stacks B481.N3813 2013 Babylon …………………………………………………………………………. Stacks DS71.O35 1986x Cambridge History of India, Volume I …………………………………………… Stacks DS436.C23 v.1 Cambridge History of Iran (vol. 2 and 3) …………………………………………….. Stacks DS272.C34 Persian Empire ………………………………………………………………… Stacks DS281 .C66 1983 Rise and Fall of Alexandria ……………………………………………….. Stacks DT154.A4 P65 2007x
MYTH/DIVINITY AND ALEXANDER THE GREAT “Alexander and the Heroes,” Arrian ………………………………………... Stacks DF234 .A7513 1976 “Heroes, Cults, and Divinity,” Alexander the Great: A New History ………. Stacks DF234 .A4857 2009 Kinship Myth in Ancient Greece ………………………………………….. Stacks GN585 .G85 P37 2010 “The Introduction of Caranus into the Argead King List,” Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies (vol. 26, 1985) ………………………..… Union DE1.G73 “The Religiosity of Alexander,” Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies (vol. 12, 1971) …………………………………………... Union DE1.G73
PHILIP OF MACDEON/DEMOSTHENES “Alexander and Philip: Emulation and Resentment,” Classical Journal (vol. 85, 1990) …...……. JSTOR Demosthenes ………………………………………………………………………… Stacks PA3952.C63 Demosthenes of Athens and the Fall of Classical Greece …………………… Stacks PA3952 .W67 2013 Philip of Macedon ……………………………………………………………………. Stacks DF233 .C28 Philip II and Alexander the Great: Father and Son, Lives and Afterlives ………………………………..... Stacks DF233 .P476 2010 Philip II of Macedonia …………………………………………………. Stacks DF233.8 .P59 W67 2008 Philip and Alexander of Macedon: Two Essays in Biography ………………………. Stacks DF283 .H72 “Support of Athenian Intellectuals for Philip: A Study of Isocrates’ Philippus and Speusippus’ Letter to Philip,” Journal of Hellenic Studies (vol. 96, 1976) ………….. JSTOR “The Macedonian Background,” Alexander the Great: A New History ……. Stacks DF234 .A4857 2009
ALEXANDER AND THE ASIATIC WORLD (INCLUDING UNITY OF MANKIND) Alexander and the East: The Tragedy of Triumph …………………………... Stacks DF234.6 .B67 1996 “Alexander and the Persian Empire, between ‘Decline’ and ‘Renovation’: History and Historiography,” Alexander the Great: A New History ………… Stacks DF234 .A4857 2009 Alexander the Great and Bactria: The Formation of a Greek Frontier in Central Asia ……………………………….. Stacks DS374.B28 H65 1989 “Alexander the Great and the Unity of Mankind,” Classical Journal (vol. 63, 1968) …………… JSTOR “Alexander and the Iranians,” Journal of Hellenic Studies (vol. 100, 1980) ……………………... JSTOR “Alexander the Great and the Kingship of Asia,” Alexander the Great in Fact and Fiction …………………………………………………. Stacks DF234.2 .A394 2000 “Alexander’s Policy of Perso-Macedonian Fusion,” Landmark Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander ……………………………………… Stacks DF234 .A77313 2010 Hellenistic Far East: Archaeology, Language, and Identity in Greek Central Asia ………………………………………………….. Stacks DS328.M24 2014 Into the Land of Bones: Alexander the Great in Afghanistan ……………… Stacks DF234.57 .H65 2005
WARFARE “A King and His Army,” Alexander the Great: A New History ……………. Stacks DF234 .A4857 2009
(Warfare, cont. on page 4)
PLEASE REFER TO COLLECTION LOCATION GUIDE FOR LOCATION OF ALL MATERIALS “Alexander’s Army and Military Leadership,” Landmark Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander ……………………………………… Stacks DF234 .A77313 2010 Ancient Greeks at War ……………………………………………………………. Stacks U33 .R39 2007 Ancient World at War: A Global History ………………………………………… Stacks U29 .A53 2008 Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare ……………………………….. Stacks U35 .C34 2007 Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great’s Empire …………... Stacks DF235.4 .W38 2011 Soldiers and Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity …………………. Stacks U29 .L46 2005 Warfare in the Classical World: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weapons, Warriors, and Warfare in the Ancient Civilisations of Greece and Rome …….……. Stacks U29 .W37 1995
ANCIENT SOURCES (EDITIONS YOU HAVE OR IN OUR LIBRARY) Arrian: Campaigns of Alexander …………………………………………….. Stacks DF234 .A773 1971 Arrian: History of Alexander and Indica (2 vols.) ………………………………… Stacks PA3612.A83x Demosthenes I ……………………………………………………………………... Stacks PA3612.D43x Demosthenes II ……………………………………………………………………… Stacks PA3612.D4x Diodorus of Sicily …………………………………………………………………. Stacks PA3612 .D48x Epitome of the Philippic History of Pompeius Trogus ……………………………. Stacks D58 .J89 1994 Geography of Strabo ……………………………………………………………….. Stacks G87 .S9 2014 Greek Historians: The Complete and Unabridged Historical Works of Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Arrian (2 vols.) ……………………... Stacks D52 .G6 Lost Histories of Alexander the Great ……………………………………………… Stacks DF234.A1 P4 Orations: De Corona, De Falsa Legatione (Demosthenes) ………………….. eBook via Library Catalog Persian Empire: A Corpus of Sources from the Achaemenid Period ………… Stacks DS281.K83 2010x Quintus Curtius: History of Alexander ……………………………………………… Stacks PA6156.C9x Plutarch’s Lives …...………………………………………………………………... Stacks PA3612 .P7x Source Book of Greek History ………………………………………………………….. Stacks DF215.F6
MEDIA, DOCUMENTARY In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great …………………………………... DVDs DS10 .I5 2004x .DVD
INDEXES, ABSTRACTS, and DATABASES Online databases are available at the Booth Library web site: http://www.library.eiu.edu.
Academic Search Complete (full text access to more than 1,500 journals) Historical Abstracts (citations and abstracts of articles in history journals with an emphasis on world history, 1972 to present) JSTOR (digital archive of more than 1,000 core academic journals)
JOURNALS Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies …………………………………………………... Union DE1.G73 Classical Journal …………………………………………………………………………………. JSTOR Journal of Hellenic Studies ……………………………………………………………………….. JSTOR
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