Source translations

Online translations of source documents

Although some of these may not be the most up-to-date translations, these are easy to search for a particular place, person or phrase, and so are easy to copy and paste.

Principal histories

Arrian Anabasis of Alexander
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/46976/46 ... 6976-h.htm
https://www.attalus.org/info/arrian.html

Arrian Indica
https://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/anci ... -India.asp

Plutarch The Life of Alexander
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/R ... /home.html

Curtius History of Alexander
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id= ... 415;seq=45 Vol. 1 Books 1-5
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id= ... 8407&seq=7 Vol. 2 Books 6-10

Diodorus Siculus Library of History
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/R ... /17A*.html

Justin Epitome of Pompeius Trogus
http://www.forumromanum.org/literature/ ... rans7.html
http://www.attalus.org/info/justinus.html

Metz Epitome
https://pothos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7119 Part I
https://pothos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7120 Part II

Other sources

Plutarch On the Fortune of Alexander
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/R ... /home.html

Plutarch Moralia (search for Alexander on the page)
https://www.attalus.org/info/moralia.html
https://oll.libertyfund.org/title/emers ... als-5-vols
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/23639/2 ... 3639-h.htm (not the whole thing)

Plutarch Sayings of kings and commanders
http://www.attalus.org/translate/sayings1.html#c25

Plutarch Life of Eumenes (Hephaestion quarrel)
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/R ... nes*.html

Polyaenus Stratagems Book 4 (search for Alexander on the page)
https://www.attalus.org/translate/polyaenus4A.html

Incidental or anecdotal sources
(Search for Alexander on the pages or sub-pages, but beware of other Alexanders (eg Paris))

Aelian Various Histories
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/aelian/contents.xhtml

Arrian Discourses of Epictetus
https://ia800900.us.archive.org/15/item ... iciala.pdf

Athenaeus Deipnosophists
https://www.attalus.org/info/athenaeus.html
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/ ... /home.html
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/pwh/athenaeus13.asp

Lucian Dialogues of the dead
https://www.theoi.com/Text/LucianDialoguesDead1.html#12

Ptolemy Life of Aristotle
http://www.attalus.org/translate/aristotle.html#31

Romances

Pseudo-Callisthenes Armenian Alexander Romance
http://www.attalus.org/armenian/Tales_A ... _trans.pdf

Pseudo-Callisthenes The Greek Alexander Romance
http://www.attalus.org/info/alexander.html
A combination of the Greek version translated by E.H.Haight (1955); the Armenian version translated by A.M.Wolohojian (1969); and the Syriac version translated by E.A.W.Budge (1889).
https://archive.org/details/greekalexanderro00pseu

A Medieval Persian Romance
https://ia804506.us.archive.org/13/item ... rnamah.pdf

Other websites

Attalus Very informative site with links to Greek and Latin texts
http://www.attalus.org/

Livius Comprehensive Greek and Roman history site
http://www.livius.org/

Fordham.edu Ancient Greek texts and links
https://legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/anci ... te%20Texts

Fordham.edu Hellenistic world texts and links
https://legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/anci ... #Alexander

Perseus Greek and Latin texts and translations
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/

Topos Text Various ancilary texts, and maps
https://topostext.org/texts

Dr Jeanne Reames site on Hephaestion
http://www.jeannereames.net/Hephaistion/index.html

Waldemar Heckel “Who’s Who in the age of Alexander the Great” Well worth downloading or buying
https://www.pdfdrive.com/whos-who-in-t ... 00198.html

William Smith “Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology”
https://archive.org/details/DictionaryO ... 20Vol%201/
https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/ ... frontcover

Jstor Academic articles and images
https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSe ... the+great]

Academia Academic articles
https://www.academia.edu/people/search? ... +the+great

Alexander the Great - Historical texts in translation by Waldmar Heckel and J C Yardley
A useful compilation of translated extracts from the sources grouped according to subject matter
https://dinitrandu.com/wp-content/uploa ... ations.pdf