Alexander the Great is one of the best-known figures in world history. He only lived until age 32, dying in Babylon. But first, he built a massive empire that stretched from "the Balkans to India." ...

Alexander the Great’s childhood has often been presented as a time of conflict between his parents, Philip II and Olympias. But this image, so often explored in novels and films, is likely ...

For whom the monument was built is a matter of debate, but Hephaestion (also spelled Haphaestion), whose death in 324 B.C. sent Alexander the Great into severe grief, is considered a leading ...

Mr. Wilkinson’s story really gets going with Alexander’s successor, Ptolemy. He was one of the Great’s generals, and after Alexander died at Babylon, he hastened to Egypt to claim that corner of the ...

Alexander the Great, Then and Now What is most captivating about the author’s approach is that he keeps history and biography in play, unsettled, open to possibilities that engage every thinking ...

In June 323 BCE, in the palace of King Nebuchadnezzar II in Babylon, the most powerful man in the world died. Just 13 days earlier, Alexander the Great —the greatest conqueror the world had seen ...