| Description |
1 online resource (360 pages) |
| Series |
Lancaster Pamphlets |
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Lancaster pamphlets.
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| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Map 1: Macedonia and neighbouring lands; Map 2: Alexander's campaigns, 334-323 BC; Map 3: Environs of Issus; Map 4: Pakistan, showing sites visited by Alexander; Genealogy; Chronology; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction: the sources; 2 The Macedonian background; 3 The consolidation of Alexander's rule; 4 The war in Asia Minor; 5 Son of Ammon; 6 The conquest of Persia; 7 The expedition to India; 8 Alexander in Babylon; 9 Conclusion; Bibliography |
| Summary |
Despite Alexander the Great's unprecedented accomplishments, during the last seven years of his life, this indomitable warrior became increasingly unpredictable, sporadically violent, megalomaniacal, and suspicious of friends as well as enemies. What could have caused such a lamentable transformation? This biography seeks to answer that question by assessing the role of alcohol in Alexander the Great's life, using the figure of Dionysus as a symbol of its destructive effects on his psyche |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C. -- Alcohol use
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| SUBJECT |
Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C. fast |
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Generals -- Greece -- Biography
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Drinking of alcoholic beverages
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Generals
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Kings and rulers
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| SUBJECT |
Greece -- History -- Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057087
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Greece -- Kings and rulers -- Biography
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| Subject |
Greece
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203134924 |
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0203134923 |
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