2nd Edition
Alexander's Marshals A Study of the Makedonian Aristocracy and the Politics of Military Leadership
This substantially revised and updated second edition of The Marshals of Alexander’s Empire (1992) examines Alexander’s most important officers, who commanded army units and were involved in military and political deliberations. Chapters on these men have been expanded, giving greater attention to personalities, bias in the sources, and the social as well as military setting, including more on familial connections and regional origins in an attempt to create a better understanding of factions. The major confrontations, military and political, are treated in greater detail within the biographies, and a discussion of the organization and command structure of the Makedonian army has been added.
Table of Contents
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Map of Alexander’s Empire
Introduction
Chapter 1: The House of Attalos
Chapter 2: The House of Aëropos
Chapter 3: Antipatros son of Iolaos
Chapter 4: Parmenion and Philotas
Chapter 5: Black Kleitos and his Relatives: The House of Dropidas
Chapter 6: Koinos son of Polemokrates
Chapter 7: Hephaistion son of Amyntos
Chapter 8: Meleagros son of Neoptolemos
Chapter 9: Leonnatos son of Anteas
Chapter 10: Krateros son of Alexandros
Chapter 11: Perdikkas son of Orontes
Chapter 12: The Sons of Andromenes
Chapter 13: Polyperchon
Chapter 14: The Family of Harpalos
Chapter 15: Ptolemy son of Lagos
Part II
The Instruments of Power
- Alexander and the Macedonian Aristocracy
- The Organization of the Army
Appendices
- Sirrhas (Irrhas) the Illyrian
- The so-called conspiracy of Amyntas Perdikka
- Asandros son of Philotas
- Artakoana
- The Office of Chiliarch and Hephaistion’s Chiliarchy
- White Kleitos and the Naval War in the Aegean
- Neoptolemos archihypaspistes
- Antigenes, Commander of the Silver Shields
- The Sons of Larichos: Erigyios and Laomedon
Stemmata
- The House of Attalos
- The Lynkestian Royal House
- The House of Iolaos
- The House of Parmenion
- The Family of Black Kleitos
- The Family of Krateros of Orestis
- The House of Andromenes and the Family of Perdikkas
Biography
Waldemar Heckel is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies at theUniversity of Calgary (Canada), where he was previously Professor of Classics.
Enthusiasts of Alexander the Great, as well as scholars and students, will be delighted by this thoroughly revised edition of an essential book for the study of the last decades of the fourth century BC. It will no doubt sit on the shelves of every university library.
- Professor Fabienne Marchand, Université de Fribourg, Switzerland
