| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 364 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
1. Introduction : uncovering the legend -- 2. Alexander's inheritance -- 3. Alexander's boyhood -- 4. King at last -- 5. The very gates of Asia -- 6. A bridge of corpses -- 7. Son of Ra, son of Zeus -- 8. Lord of Asia -- 9. Conquest and conspiracy -- 10. Bactria and Sogdiana -- 11. India -- 12. 'We'll say goodbye in Babylon' -- 13. Death and disorder -- 14. Man and god -- 15. Alexander : the Great -- 16. Philip's ghost |
| Summary |
Alexander the Great conquered territories on a superhuman scale and established an empire that stretched from Greece to India. He spread Greek culture and education throughout his empire, and was worshipped as a living god by many of his subjects. But how great is a leader responsible for the deaths on tens of thousands of people? A ruler who prefers constant warring to administering the peace? A man who believed he was a god, who murdered his friends, and recklessly put his soldiers lives at risk?Ian Worthington delves into Alexander's successes and failures, his paranoia, the murde |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C.
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Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C. |
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Generals -- Greece -- Biography.
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Generals.
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Kings and rulers.
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Greece -- History -- Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C
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Greece -- Kings and rulers -- Biography.
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Greece.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1281384666 |
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1306971438 |
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1315834960 |
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1317866436 |
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1317866444 |
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1317866452 |
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140580162X |
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1408211602 |
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6611384669 |
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9781281384669 |
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9781306971430 |
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9781315834962 |
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9781317866435 |
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9781317866442 |
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9781317866459 |
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9781405801621 |
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9781408211601 |
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9786611384661 |
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