The Age of Alexander

This Plutarch selection collects Greek lives from the world before, during and after Alexander’s rise. It is useful for people-centred accounts of fourth-century Greece and Macedon, including the political world around Demosthenes, Phocion and Alexander, the fall of the independent city-state order and the campaigns that carried Macedonian power into Asia. It is biography rather than continuous military history, but it gives context for the people behind the age of Chaeronea and Alexander.