Written and presented by historian and broadcaster Michael Wood,[1] it retraced the travels of Alexander the Great, from Macedonia to the borders of India and back to Mesopotamia.

[2][3] Wood was prevented by the government of Greece from interviewing Eugene N. Borza, a professor specializing in the history of Macedonia, anywhere within Greece, apparently because of Borza's controversial[4] views on the ethnic differences between the Greeks and Macedonians in ancient times.

[12] In an article published in Summer 1998, Eugene N. Borza expressed approval of the series but was unhappy with the accompanying book.

[13] The book In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great: A Journey from Greece to Asia, by Michael Wood, is a companion to the television series.

It was published, by the University of California Press in Berkeley and Los Angeles, by Routledge in New York, in 1997.