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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451336903321

Autore

Worthington Ian.

Titolo

Alexander the Great : man and god / / Ian Worthington

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2014

ISBN

1-315-83496-0

1-317-86645-2

1-281-38466-6

9786611384661

1-4082-1160-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (389 p.)

Disciplina

938/.07/092

Soggetti

Generals - Greece

Electronic books.

Greece History Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C

Greece Kings and rulers Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2004 by Pearson Education Limited.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Dedication; List of Plates; List of Figures; List of Maps; Preface to Paperback edition; Preface to Hardback edition; Acknowledgements; Alexander's Reign: The Main Events; Map of Macedonia and Greece; Map of Alexander's Empire; 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 Disorder14 Man and God; 15 Alexander: The Great; 16 Philip's Ghost; Notes; Bibliographic Essay; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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