Foreword: ancient historiography and ancient history
Part I. Introduction
Why history? On the emergence of historical writing / Mark Munn
Part II. Persia and Greece
The political and the divine in Achaemenid royal inscriptions / Eran Almagor
Cyrus the Great and the sacrifices for a dead king / Josef Wiesehöfer
The horse and the stag: Philistus' view of tyrants / Frances Pownall
Part III. Macedon
Alexander II of Macedon / William Greenwalt
"The giver of the bride, the bridegroom, and the bride": a study of the death of Philip II and its aftermath / Waldemar Heckel, Timothy Howe and Sabine Müller
Royal tombs and cult of the dead kings in early Hellenistic Macedonia / Franca Landucci Gattinoni
Part IV. The empires of Alexander the Great and the Diadochoi
The financial administration of Asia Minor under Alexander the Great: an interpretation of two passages from Arrian's Anabasis / Maxim M. Kholod
The eagle has landed: divination in the Alexander historians / Hugh Bowden
The casualty figures of Alexander's army / Jacek Rzepka
Alexander's battles against Persians in the art of the successors / Olga Palagia
How the hoopoe got his crest: reflections on Megasthenes' stories of India / Richard Stoneman
Creating the king: the image of Alexander the Great in 1 Maccabees, 1:10 / Aleksandra Kleczar
Part V. Second sophistic Rome
The hero vs. the tyrant: legitimate and illegitimate rule in the Alexander-Caesar pairing / Rebecca Frank
Plutarch's Alexander, dionysos and the metaphysics of power / Elias Koulakiotis
The artistic king: reflections on a topos in second sophistic historiography / Sabine Müller
Flattery, history, and the .epa.de.mu / Sulochana Asirvatham.