Philip and Alexander: kings and conquerors

Introduction: "Some talk of Alexander"

Philip II. In the beginning

Crisis

Macedonian, Greek, and Barbarian

Alliances and wives

War and its price

"I did not run away": defeat in Thessaly

The avenger

Peace

The prince

Old and new enemies

Chaeronea

Love and Persia

"Wreathed is the bull": passion, ambition, and revenge

Alexander and Persia. The example

The army and the enemy

The river

The Gordian knot

"Then truly there was great bloodshed": the battle of Issus, 333 BC

"Manifestly a large task": the siege of Tyre

An oasis and a god

The battle of Gaugamela

"The most hateful of the cities of Asia"

An end and a beginning

The upright tiara

Lord of Asia. The sword and the flame

"Poorer for a kiss"

India

Victory into retreat

Sea and sand

The return of the king

"An utter loss"

Tears and a broken nose.