Mary Renault's account of Alexander the Great's life and campaigns, opening with his funeral cortege in Babylon and tracing his conquests through Macedon, Persia, and India using ancient sources such as Arrian, Plutarch, and Diodorus.
Books mentioned in The Nature of Alexander (4)
Cyropaedia by Xenophon: “The most picturesque subplot of Xenophon's Cyropaedia is the story of Cyrus and the Lady of Susa”
Iliad by Homer: “a specially precious casket was taken by Alexander to house his copy of the Iliad, edited for him by Aristotle when he was a boy”
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare: “this must have been as traumatic as a flogging from Julius Caesar”
Henry V by William Shakespeare: “When the Dauphin sent Henry V a bat and ball in scorn of his youth, he must have chosen his ill-judged gift”