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The 122 pages that link to Alexander the Great, each with the reason it gives.

• AristotleRelated: Ancient sources report that Aristotle tutored Alexander before his campaigns.

• AlexandriaRelated: He founded Alexandria during his conquest of Egypt in 331 BCE.

• Diodorus SiculusRelated: Diodorus’s account of Alexander is a major surviving narrative of his campaigns.

• Koine GreekRelated: His conquests spread Greek-speaking institutions across regions where Koine became widely used.

• AnatoliaRelated: His conquest ended Persian rule in Anatolia and began its Hellenistic era.

• Philip II of MacedonRelated: Philip’s son inherited his army and kingdom, then carried the planned Persian campaign far beyond its original scope.

• PhoeniciaRelated: His conquests ended Persian rule over Phoenician cities and reshaped their political setting.

• Amu DaryaRelated: His campaigns crossed the Oxus, the river later known as the Amu Darya.

• TheophrastusRelated: Theophrastus’s botanical inquiries belong to the era of expanding Greek knowledge and contact.

• Wars of the DiadochiRelated: His death without an adult heir opened the succession crisis behind the wars.

• Macedonian phalanxRelated: His campaigns show the phalanx operating alongside cavalry across an immense theater of war.

• Persian EmpireRelated: His campaigns ended Achaemenid rule and transferred its territories to Macedonian control.

• Ancient GreeceRelated: His conquests spread Greek influence and opened the Hellenistic era.

• Indo-Greek KingdomRelated: His eastern conquests introduced Greek political and cultural institutions to the region.

• PunjabRelated: His campaign reached the Punjab and ended near the Hyphasis River.

• SamarkandRelated: He captured the city, then known as Maracanda, in the fourth century BCE.

• Ancient Greek historiographyRelated: Lost histories of Alexander shaped later narratives, while surviving authors debate his character and deeds.

• BactriaRelated: His conquest brought Bactria under Macedonian rule and helped reshape its political order.

• TransoxianaRelated: His campaigns brought Greek-Macedonian rule into the region’s ancient history.

• Battle of GaugamelaRelated: His cavalry-led attack opened the gap that broke Darius’s battle line.

• Seleucus I NicatorRelated: Seleucus served in Alexander’s campaigns and built his power from the empire Alexander left behind.

• PersepolisRelated: His forces captured Persepolis in 330 BCE and burned its palace complex.

• Hellenistic JudaismRelated: His conquests spread Greek political and cultural influence through regions with established Jewish populations.

• Hindu KushRelated: His campaigns crossed routes around the Hindu Kush and shaped classical accounts of the region.

• Greco-Buddhist artRelated: His campaigns initiated centuries of Greek political and cultural presence east of the Mediterranean.

• Battle of IssusRelated: He led the Macedonian army and personally directed its decisive attack.

• Hellenistic artRelated: His death in 323 BCE marks the conventional beginning of the Hellenistic period.

• Ptolemy I SoterRelated: Ptolemy served in Alexander’s campaigns and later claimed authority as one of his successors.

• Chandragupta MauryaRelated: The political disruption following his Indian campaign created conditions for Chandragupta’s western expansion.

• Hellenistic sculptureRelated: His conquests helped spread Greek artistic practices across the territories where Hellenistic sculpture developed.

• Khyber PassRelated: His campaigns crossed the broader Afghanistan–India corridor.

• Second Temple periodRelated: His conquests brought Judea under Hellenistic successor kingdoms.

• Antigonus I MonophthalmusRelated: Antigonus served Alexander and gained his first major command during the conquest.

• HeratRelated: Ancient accounts associate his eastern campaigns with the foundation of Alexandria in Areia, identified with Herat.

• Interpretatio GraecaRelated: His conquests intensified Greek encounters with local religions across western Asia and Egypt.

• Macedonian armyRelated: He led the army through the campaigns that made its combined-arms system famous.

• PeacockRelated: Ancient tradition connects his campaigns with Greek encounters with peafowl in Asia.

• SmyrnaRelated: Later tradition associated Smyrna’s relocation and renewal with Alexander’s era.

• ArrianRelated: Arrian’s narrative centers on Alexander’s conquests and military leadership.

• Hellenistic warfareRelated: His campaigns spread Macedonian military methods across the eastern Mediterranean and Asia.

• Battle of the GranicusRelated: He commanded the Macedonian army and personally led the river crossing.

• Battle of the HydaspesRelated: He directed the crossing and commanded the Macedonian force.

• DiadochiRelated: His conquests gave the successors an empire to contest, but his death left its leadership unresolved.

• Hellenistic armyRelated: His campaigns spread Macedonian military practices across the territories later ruled by his successors.

• OlympiasRelated: As her son, he was the central source of Olympias’s dynastic influence.

• TaxilaRelated: His campaign brought Taxila into accounts of Macedonian expansion in the northwest of the Indian subcontinent.

• Achaemenid artRelated: His conquest ended the dynasty while exposing its monuments and treasures to new political uses.

• Alexander RomanceRelated: His conquests and reputation supplied the stories’ central hero.

• Homeric epicsRelated: Ancient accounts describe Homer’s poems, especially the Iliad, as central to his education and self-image.

• Peripatetic schoolRelated: Aristotle’s connection to Alexander preceded the founding of his Athenian school.