Format:
Online-Ressource (668 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780520275867
Series Statement:
Hellenistic culture and society 11
Content:
Until recently, popular biographers and most scholars viewed Alexander the Great as a genius with a plan, a romantic figure pursuing his vision of a united world. His dream was at times characterized as a benevolent interest in the brotherhood of man, sometimes as a brute interest in the exercise of power. Green, a Cambridge-trained classicist who is also a novelist, portrays Alexander as both a complex personality and a single-minded general, a man capable of such diverse expediencies as patricide or the massacre of civilians. Green describes his Alexander as ""not only the most brilliant (an
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface to the 2013 Reprint; Preface to the 1991 Reprint; Preface and Acknowledgements; List of Maps and Battle Plans; Key to Abbreviations; Table of Dates; 1 Philip of Macedon; 2 The Gardens of Midas; 3 From a View to a Death; 4 The Keys of the Kingdom; 5 The Captain-General; 6 The Road to lssus; 7 Intimations of Immortality; 8 The Lord of Asia; 9 The Quest for Ocean; 10 How Many Miles to Babylon?; Appendix: Propaganda at the Granicus; Notes and References; Sources of Information; Genealogical Table; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520954694
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520275867
Additional Edition:
Print version Alexander of Macedon, 356_323 B.C. : A Historical Biography
Language:
English
Keywords:
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