Volume 26, Number 20 · December 20, 1979
Alexander's Mules
By Ernst Badian
Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army
by Donald W. Engels
University of California Press, 194 pp., $16.50
The annual book on Alexander the Great has become a laughing-stock among scholars, though authors and publishers apparently continue to find it profitable. Engels shows that serious and important work on Alexander is possible, and that it need not be confined to the obscurity of professional journals. This book by a young scholar is, with all its technical faults (for which the publisher is as much to blame as the author), the most important work on Alexander the Great to appear in a long time. Neither scholarship nor semi-fictional biography will ever be the same again.
Review, 3505 words
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