1. Alexander’s Campaigns
Lecture for History 222
February 4, 2008

2. Historiographical Preface
Facts: what role to play in ancient history?
Analogy: reconstructing temples
Example: divinity of Alexander
Example 2: Philip’s death
Extended Example: Alexander’s Campaigns and Battles

3. Raw Material

4. Comparative Study Temple of Hephaistos

5. Play with existing parts a bit Temple at Aphaia

6. Reconstructed Model

7. Add some color

8. Alexander’s Divinity

9. Philip’s Murder I
Plutarch (p. 145): “But the disorders of his family, chiefly caused by his new marriages and attachments (the troubles that began in the women’s chambers spreading, so to say, to the whole kingdom), raised various complaints and differences between them, which the violence of Olympias, a woman of a jealous and implacable temper, made wider, by exasperating Alexander against his father.”

10. Philip’s Murder II
Plutarch (p. 146): Pausanias…murdered him (Philip). The guilt of which fact was laid for the most part upon Olympias, who was said to have encouraged and exasperated the enraged youth to revenge; and som sort of suspicion attached even to Alexander himself…”

11. Alexander’s Campaigning

12. Battle at river Granicus (334)

13. Map

14. Battle at Issus I (333)

15. Battle at Issus II

16. Battle at Issus III

17. Map

18. Siege of Tyre (332)

19. Map

20. Battle of Gaugamela I (331)

21. Battle of Gaugamela II

22. Map

23. Battle at river Hydaspes I (326)

24. Battle at River Hydaspes II

25. Side Trips?

26. Other Perspectives? Common Soldiers Locals Women “Artists”
Friends back in Greece/Macedonia