Chapter 8 No.8

Alexander the Great.

The further course of Greek history 155

Droysen's Geschichte des Hellenismus 155

This period much neglected by English historians 155

Nature of our authorities 156

Alexander's place in history still disputed 157

Grote's unfairness in accepting evidence against him 157

Droysen's estimate 158

Tendency to attribute calculation to genius 158

Its spontaneity 159

Alexander's military antecedents 159

He learns to respect Persian valour and loyalty 160

He discovers how to fuse the nations in Alexandria 160

His development of commerce 161

Diffusion of gold 161

Development of Alexander's views 162

His romantic imagination 162

No pupil of Aristotle 162

His portentous activity 163

Compared with Napoleon 163

and Cromwell 164

Use of artillery 164

Vain but not envious 165

His assumption of divinity questioned 165

An ordinary matter in those days 166

Perhaps not asserted among the Greeks 166