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About the book >.>.> Since I wrote this book Alexander the Great has continued to inspire a yearly flood of scholarly studies. There have been books on Alex- ander the statesman Alexander’s conquest and empire Alexander’s cities Alexander’s portraits Alexander’s marshals and Alexander’s fondness for drink. There have been studies of the route of his march the weaponry of his army its logistics its numbers and the detailed tactics of major battles. The indispensable legacy of the past twenty years has been a series of commentaries on the main Greek and Latin narratives of his expedition. When complete they will give an up-to-date introduction to the main problems in each main text line by line. They also contribute to the continuing arguments over the original sources bias and methods of each of the surviving narra- tives. These arguments which are far from settled are a major reason for the differences of emphasis and detail in the modern books on Alexander’s career. No new narratives have been discovered but there have been some remarkable additions to other areas of our evidence. Frag- ments of the contemporary Babylonian chronicle have now been published and explained giving us a glimpse from the Asian side of the month in 331 BC surrounding the great battle of Gaugamela. From a source uninfluenced by Greek descriptions we now know that the Persian King’s army was afflicted by widespread fear only a few days before the battle began and that Alexander marched extremely quickly from the battlefield in order to follow up the vic- tory in Babylonia. A papyrus from Egypt gives the first content porary trace of rule by Alexander’s officers: it contains an order in Greek not to trespass on an Egyptian sanctuary. (MP)