Sources

Ancient sources[edit]

• Aelian, Varia Historia
• Arrian, The Campaigns of Alexander
• Quintus Curtius Rufus, The History of Alexander
• Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica
• Diogenes Laertius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers: Aristotle
• Diogenes of Sinope, Letters
• Homer, Iliad
• Horace, Epistles
• Lucian, Pro Lapsu
• Plutarch, Parallel Lives: Alexander, Eumenes

Modern sources[edit]

• Cartledge, Paul (2004) Alexander the Great: The Hunt for a New Past. London: Macmillan. ISBN 1-4050-3292-8
• Chugg, Andrew Michael (2006) Alexander’s Lovers. Lightning Source UK Ltd. ISBN 978-1-4116-9960-1
• Hammond, N. G. L. (1980 2nd edition) Alexander the Great: King, Commander and Statesman. Bristol Press. ISBN 1-85399-068-X
• Hammond, N. G. L. (1997) The Genius of Alexander the Great. London: Duckworth. ISBN 0-7156-3341-4
• Heckel, Waldemar (2006) Who’s Who in the Age of Alexander the Great. MA, USA: Blackwell. ISBN 1-4051-1210-7
• Lane Fox, Robin (1973) Alexander the Great. London: Allen Lane. ISBN 0-14-102076-8
• Martin, Thomas R. (2012). Alexander the Great : the story of an ancient life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521767484
• Renault, Mary (1975) The Nature of Alexander. London: Allen Lane. ISBN 0-7139-0936-6

Further reading[edit]

• Reames, Jeanne. Hephaistion Amyntoros: Eminence Grise at the Court of Alexander the Great. Diss. The Pennsylvania State University, c1998. (abstract)
• Borza, Eugene and Jeanne Reames. Some New Thoughts on the Death of Alexander the Great, The Ancient World 31.1 (2000) 1-9.
• Bosworth, Albert Brian. Hephaistion. In: Simon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth (Hrsg.): The Oxford Classical Dictionary. 3. Aufl., Oxford University Press, Oxford 1996, ISBN 0-19-866172-X.
• Carney, Elizabeth D. Alexander the Great and the Macedonian Aristocracy. Dissertation, Duke University, 1975.
• Heckel, Waldemar. Hephaistion. In: Ders.: The Marshals of Alexander’s Empire. Routledge, London 1992, ISBN 0-415-05053-7.
• Reames, Jeanne. An Atypical Affair? Alexander the Great, Hephaistion, and the Nature of Their Relationship. In: The Ancient History Bulletin 13.3 (1999), pp. 81–96.
• Reames, Jeanne. The Cult of Hephaistion. In: Cartledge, Paul, and Greenland, Fiona Rose (ed.), Responses to Oliver Stone’s Alexander. Film, History, and Cultural Studies. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison 2010, ISBN 0-299-23284-0 (accessible online in Scribd.com).
• Reames, Jeanne. The Mourning of Alexander the Great, In: Syllecta Classica 12 (2001) 98-145.