THE WARRIOR KINGS OF MACEDON, 359-323 BC

UPPER AND LOWER MACEDONIA. TRANSHUMATION. KING'S COMPANIONS. PHILIP II OF MACEDON (382-336 BC). THEBAN MILITARY TACTICS. CAVALRY. RIVALRY WITH ATHENS. THE SACRED WAR. DEMOSTHENES' "PHILIPPICS." BATTLE OF CHAERONEA (338 BC). MURDER OF PHILIP.

DARIUS III. BATTLE AT THE RIVER GRANICUS (334 BC). THE GORDIAN KNOT. BATTLE OF ISSUS (333 BC). TYRE. ORACLE OF AMON. ALEXANDRIA. BATTLE OF GAUGAMELA (333 BC). DEATH OF DARIUS. MURDER OF PARMENIO AND "BLACK CLEITUS." PROSKYNESIS ("KISSING THE GROUND") INVASION OF INDIA. RETURN. DEATH IN BABYLON (323 BC).