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

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

• MacedonBroader topic: He inherited Philip’s kingdom and turned Macedonian power into a vast empire.

• Macedonian EmpireBroader topic: His campaigns created the empire, and his personal command shaped its expansion.

• 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.

• Demetrius I PoliorcetesNarrower topic: Demetrius’s career belonged to the generation that fought over Alexander’s empire.

• Hellenistic kingdomNarrower topic: His conquests created the vast territory his successors divided into kingdoms.

• 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.

• Artaxerxes IIIRelated: His conquest soon erased the imperial recovery Artaxerxes had achieved.

• Darius IIICompared with: His victories against Darius transformed a dynastic contest into the conquest of Persia.

• League of CorinthRelated: As Philip’s successor, he used the League’s mandate to lead the invasion.

• LyceumRelated: Aristotle had tutored Alexander before founding the Lyceum.

• Quintus Curtius RufusRelated: Alexander is the central subject of Curtius’s history.

• SogdiaRelated: His campaigns brought Sogdia into the historical record of Hellenistic conquest.

• TyreRelated: Alexander led the conquest that ended Tyre’s independence in 332 BCE.

• CassanderRelated: His death without an adult successor opened the contests in which Cassander gained power.

• Gandhara artRelated: His campaigns began a lasting Greek presence in regions connected to Gandhara.

• KandaharRelated: Ancient tradition links Kandahar’s name to Alexandria, though the city’s origins predate Alexander’s campaigns.

• Siwa OasisRelated: His visit to Siwa’s oracle became one of the oasis’s best-known ancient episodes.

• DemosthenesRelated: Demosthenes continued opposing Macedonian domination after Alexander succeeded Philip.

• Greek city-stateRelated: His conquests shifted power from competing poleis to a Macedonian-led monarchy.

• BagoasRelated: Ancient narratives connect Bagoas with Alexander after the Persian conquest.

• Hellenistic GreeceRelated: His death in 323 BCE marks the era’s beginning and left his generals to divide his empire.

• Thirtieth Dynasty of EgyptRelated: His conquest soon ended the Persian dynasty that had displaced Egypt’s native rulers.

• Achaemenid royal roadRelated: His campaigns used Persian roads to move armies rapidly across conquered territories.

• Ancient warfareRelated: His leadership connected battlefield victories to the rapid expansion of an empire.

• Battle of CorupediumNarrower topic: The struggle over his empire produced the rival monarchies at Corupedium.

• Johann Gustav DroysenBroader topic: Droysen’s early scholarship made Alexander’s campaigns the starting point for his Hellenistic history.

• LysipposRelated: Lysippos became Alexander's principal portrait sculptor.

• Nanda EmpireRelated: Greek accounts of Alexander’s campaign report a powerful eastern ruler often associated with the Nandas.

• Nectanebo IRelated: His conquest followed the fall of Nectanebo’s dynasty and began Macedonian rule in Egypt.

• Nectanebo IIRelated: His conquest ended the Persian regime that had displaced Nectanebo.

• PorusRelated: His invasion brought Porus into direct conflict with a western army.

• Roxana (Macedonian queen)Related: Roxana married Alexander during his campaign in Central Asia.

• Thirty-first Dynasty of EgyptRelated: His entry into Egypt in 332 BCE ended the dynasty.

• Twenty-eighth Dynasty of EgyptRelated: His conquest eventually displaced Persian rule and began a new phase of Egyptian kingship.

• Battle of the Persian GateRelated: He led the Macedonian force and sought a way around the Persian position.

• Beas RiverRelated: His army stopped at the Beas in 326 BCE, marking the eastern limit of his campaign.

• History of IranRelated: His invasion brought Iran under Hellenistic rule and redirected its political history.

• Jhelum RiverRelated: His campaign reached the Jhelum and fought Porus on its banks.

• KhujandRelated: His campaign reached the site of Khujand, where he founded a city called Alexandria Eschate.

• Lamian WarNarrower topic: His conquests had left Macedonia dominant over Greece when the revolt began.

• Menander IRelated: His campaigns began the Greek presence in regions later ruled by Indo-Greek kings.

• Military campaignBroader topic: His linked campaigns show how rapid movement and decisive engagements could serve conquest.

• MultanRelated: His campaign reached the region of Multan in 326 BCE.

• PyrrhoRelated: Later biographies say Pyrrho traveled east with Alexander’s expedition.

• Ai-KhanoumRelated: His conquests created the Greek political and cultural presence that preceded the city.