There are some subjects that proliferate and plague the Internet to the nth degree, like the Alyssa Milano pics on my computer. Historical peoples make up a very large percentage of web topics, and Alexander the Great certainly has his name well known amongst those websites. Just open your favorite browser’s Search section, type in ‘Alexander the Great’, and you’ll see what I mean.

Thankfully, the Internet has been around a while, and much like I’m doing with this article for our dear readers, the work involved in looking for good Alexander sites has already been done, resulting in the best site I have seen on Alexander by far.

Tim Spalding is the person responsible for this immense conglomeration of web info on and about Alexander the Great, which is itself only a section of the much larger and strangely named Isidore of Seville website.

The Alexander section begins by claiming to be the "comprehensive guide to 1,000 websites about Alexander, sorted, described and ranked." In about thirty well-sorted categories, Tim has links to info and other sites concerning Alexander’s web biographies, his life’s history, his army and their battle campaigns, his friends and enemies, documentaries, academic articles, and even resource sites geared towards students young and old. His lengthy ‘no-spoilers’ review of Oliver Stone’s movie Alexander is the best I’ve read. In short, if you are looking for Alexander the Great on the Web, the search starts and stops here.

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