Alexander the Great: the truth behind the myth. Paul Cartledge. 2005.

His fame has endured for well over two millenia, mythologized by Eastern and Western cultures alike. He is remembered as the conqueror who, by the time he was thirty, had taken his victorious army to the limits of the inhabited world and ruled an empire that stretched from the Mediterranean to the Hindu Kush. But who was Alexander the Great? In this original and provocative biography, the fruit of a lifetime’s research, Paul Cartledge tracks down his multiple identities and astonishing achievements in the hunt for a new vision of the warrior king.