Primary source

The Campaigns of Alexander (Anabasis Alexandri)

Biography by Arrian · 145 · grounds Alexander the Great

Overview

The most reliable ancient military account, drawing on Ptolemy I's lost memoirs. Source for Granicus, Issus, Gaugamela, and the siege of Tyre.

A full write-up of this book has not been published yet.

Installable Claude Code skills grounded in this text. Each one teaches a framework the book actually argues for.

List every front. Identify the one whose win makes the rest moot. Concentrate force. Strike before they react. Refuse the diversion.