* Dinocrates had pleased Alexander by proposing to carve Mt. Athos—six thousand feet high—into a figure of Alexander standing waist deep in the sea, holding a city in one hand and a harbor in the other.²⁴ The project was never carried out.

* Lucian gives the ancient view in one of his Dialogues of the Dead: “Philip. You cannot deny that you are my son, Alexander; if you had been Ammon’s son you would not have died. Alex. I knew all the time that you were my father. I only accepted the statement of the oracle because I thought it was good policy. . . . When the barbarians thought they had a god to deal with, they gave up the struggle; which made their conquest an easy matter.”³⁶

* There are conflicting stories about his guilt and his death.³⁷ He left three main works: Hellenic a, a history of Greece from 387 to 337; a History of the Sacred War, and a History of Alexander.

† Each of them, Arrian assures us, received a talent in addition to his pay—which continued till he reached his home.³⁸