Alexander and the Macedonian Empire

Series of Lectures by Kenneth W. Harl on Alexander, the condition of Greece and Persia during his time and the total impact of his campaign.

• Alexander the Great: Conqueror or Tyrant?
• Greece in the Age of Hegemonies
• Achaemenid Persia
• The world of Early Macedon
• Philip II and the Macedonian Way of War
• The Third Sacred War
• The Macedonian Conquest of Greece
• The League of Corinth
• Alexander Heir Apparent
• Securing the Inheritance 336 - 335 B.C.
• The Invation of Asia
• The Battle of Granicus
• The Turning Point - Issus and Tyre
• Alexander: Pharaoh of Egypt
• Heroes, Oracles and Gods
• The Campaign of Gaugamela
• The Conquest of Iran
• Alexander on the Rim of the World
• Governing and Taxing the Empire
• Alexander and the Macedonian Opposition
• The Invation of India
• The Battle of the Hydaspes
• Mutiny and Withdrawal
• The Gedrosian Desert and the Journey of Nearchus
• Defication and Succession
• Alexander and the Macedonians at Opis
• Alexander and the Greeks - The Lamian Wars
• The Diadochoi (323 - 316 B.C.)
• The Particion of the Empire (316 - 301 B.C.)
• The Hellenistic Concert of Powers
• Macedonian Courts in the Near East
• The Hellenization of the Near East
• The Monetization of the Near East
• Hellenization and the Gods
• The Limits of Hellenization
• Alexander the Great and the Shadow of Rome