The "romance" of Alexander the Great is a unique illuminated codex on his life and was the most widely-read romance in the ...

Alexander was born in Pella ... overlord of Asia Minor and pharaoh of Egypt became 'great king' of Persia at the age of 25. Over the next eight years, in his capacity as king, commander ...

Anthony Everitt, the British author of the recent biography Alexander the Great, agrees that Aristotle was a hard-core nationalist. Talking by phone, he jokingly compares the philosopher to a ...

Historians in Turkey have made a groundbreaking discovery, identifying what they believe to be the exact location of the Battle of the Granicus, the first major victory of Alexander the Great. This ...