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A great deal of research goes into writing an historical novel, and the Tyrant novels are no exception. Chris Cameron has gone back to school as an undergraduate to learn Classical Greek at the University of Toronto and hopes in time to earn himself a Masters in Classics. One of the fundamental ideas for the series came from noted classical historian T. Cuyler Young, who passed away Feb. 7th, 2006. He was a great historian and a great man, and the combination of his passion for the period with pipe smoke, chocolate cake and strong coffee proved a heady brew for the author.

What follows is not an exhaustive list of the sources available on the period, but rather a selection of books, without reference to scholarly articles or the eternally useful Osprey books, or the equally useful, but now out of print WRG guides, which the author found the most useful.

Aeneas Tacitus, Asclepiodotus, Onasander (Loeb-Harvard 2001)
Aristophanes, Knights/Peace/Birds/Assemblywomen/Wealth (Penguin 1978)
Arrianus, Flavius, Tactical Handbook and Expedition Against the Alans (Ares 2003)
Arrianus, Flavius, The Campaigns of Alexander (Penguin 1976)
Austin, N.I.E., and Rankov, N.B., Exploratio (Routledge 1995)
Brentjes, Burchard, Arms of the Saka (Rishi, 1996)
Burn, Lucilla, Hellenistic Art (British Museum 2004)
Casson, Lionel, The Ancient Mariners (Princeton 1991)
Charriere, Georges, Scythian Art (Alpine 1979)
Connelly, Peter, Greece and Rome at War (Greenhill Books 2006)
Crouwel, Joost H. and Littauer, Mary Aiken, Selected Writings on Chariots, other Early Vehicles, Riding, and Harness (Brill, 2002)
Davidson, James, Courtesans and Fishcakes (St. Martin’s Press 1998)
Davis-Kimball, Jeannine; Bashilov, Vladimir A.; Yablonsky, Leonid T., editors, Nomads of the Eurasian Steppes in the Early Iron Age (Zinat Press 1995)
De Jong, Brian, The Companion Guide to Greece (Boydell and Brewer, 2000)
Eliade, Mircea, Shamanism (Princeton, 1951)
Engels, Donald W., Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army (University of California, 1978)
Euripides; Mastronarde, Donald j., ed., Medea (Cambridge University Press 2002)
Gaebel, Robert E., Cavalry Operations in the Ancient Greek World (University of Oklahoma 2002)
Golvin, Jean-Claude, Ancient Cities Brought to Life (Thalamus Publishing, Ludlow, UK 2007)
Green, Peter, Alexander of Macedon (University of California, 1991)
     —, Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age (Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2007)
Graves, Robert, The White Goddess (Faber and Faber, 1961)
Griffith, G.T., Mercenaries of the Hellenistic World (Cambridge 1939)
Hampe, Roland and Simon, Erika, The Birth of Greek Art (Oxford 1981)
Hesiod and Theognis, Theogeny, Works and Days, Elegies (Penguin, 1973)
Herodotus, The Histories (Penguin Classics 2002)
Kincaid, C.A., Successors of Alexander the Great (London 1923)
Lattimore, Richmond, The Iliad of Homer (Chicago University Press 1971)
Lattimore, Richmond, The Odyssey of Homer (Harper Collins, Scranton, PA 1991)
Martin, Luther H., Hellenistic Religions (Oxford 1987)
Plato, Apology (Bolchazy-Carducci 2003)
Plato, Republic (Loeb-Harvard 1999)
Plutarch, The Age of Alexander (Penguin 1973)
Polyaeni, Strategematon (Woelfflin and Melber 1887)
Prevas, John, Envy of the Gods (Da Capo 2004)
Reeder, Ellen D., ed., Scythian Gold (Harry N. Abrams, New York 1999)
Robinson, C.A., The History of Alexander the Great (Providence 1953)
Rolle, Renate, The World of the Scythians (Bath Press 1980)
Rufus, Quintus Curtius, The History of Alexander (Penguin 1984)
Smyth, Herbert Weir, Greek Grammar (Harvard 1920)
Snodgrass, A.M., Arms and Armour of the Greeks (Cornell, 1967)
Speidel, Michael P., Riding for Caesar (Harvard 1994)
Spence, I.G., The Cavalry of Classical Greece (Oxford 1993)
Stoneman, Richard, trans., The Greek Alexander Romance (Penguin 1991)
Sweet, Waldo, Sport and Recreation in Ancient Greece (Oxford 1987)
Xenophon, Anabasis, (Loeb-Harvard 2001)
Xenophon, Memorabilia, Oeconomicus, Symposium, Apology (Loeb Harvard 1997)