Alexander the Great: man and god
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 r…
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- Full title :Alexander the Great : man and god / Ian Worthington.
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.
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- Publication Date:2014.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Routledge
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2014.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xxiv, 364 pages) : : illustrations, maps
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1306971438, 9781306971430, 9781315834962, 1315834960, 140580162X, 9781405801621, 9781408211601, 1408211602, 9781317866435, 1317866436, 9781317866442, 1317866444, 1317866452, 9781317866459, 1281384666, 9781281384669, 9786611384661, 6611384669
- DOI:10.4324/9781315834962
- oclc:ocn884550142
- LC Classification:DF234
- Dewey Decimal:938.1
Table of 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.
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