Son of the thunderbolt : Alexander's birth myths and their dates. The birth myths ; The lion-seal ; The thunderbolt ; The serpent sire and its tradition ; The serpent sire and the debate over Alexander's paternity ; The serpent sire and Ammon
Son of the serpent : the original identity of Alexander's serpent sire. Alexander's world of serpents ; Patterns in the Alexander serpent-lore ; The original identity of the serpent sire ; The visualisation of the seduction of Olympias
Son of the ram : Alexander as heir to the Macedonian foundation myths. Typologies ; Macedon ; Caranus ; Perdiccas ; Midas ; Archelaus ; The interaction of Alexander's myths with the foundation myths
Son of the Eagle : the heirs to Alexander's birth myths. The opportunities offered by Alexander's birth myths ; Ptolemy Soter ; Seleucus Nicator : the foundations of Antioch and Seleuceia ; Seleucus Nicator : descent and typologies ; Seleucus Nicator : Apollo as sire ; Antigonus Monophthalmus and Demetrius Poliocetes ; Other Hellenistic dynasties and the Roman Empire ; Conclusions
Son of the witch : traditions of polygamy in the Macedonian court. The polygamous structure of the Macedonian court ; Olympias and Philinna : a war of witches? ; Alexander's family : polygamy and productivity
Alexander's wives : fact and tradition. Roxane ; Stateira ; Parysatis ; Barsine
Alexander's dalliances : fact and tradition. Courtesans ; Sons and mothers : encounters with local queens
Alexander's men : fact and tradition. The enigma of Hephaestion ; Bagoas the eunuch ; Hector
Alexander the gynnis. The gynnis tale ; What was a gynnis ; Alexander as a gynnis.