This book contains concise biographies of over 800 individuals known from the literary and epigraphic sources for the age of Alexander.

• Covers significant figures, ranging from leading commanders in Alexander's army to the nobles and regional leaders of the Persian empire whom he encountered on his epic campaign
  
• The only complete collection of its kind in English
  
• Gives complete and balanced biographies, extending beyond the death of Alexander in 323 BC where relevant
  
• Contains a full index and a concordance giving the variant names found in the ancient sources