Alexander the Great Man and God

Name: Alexander the Great Man and God
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ISBN: 9781405801621

ISBN-10: 140580162X

ISBN-13: 9781405801621

Edition: 2004

Authors: Ian Worthington

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He 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 the successes and failures, his paranoia, the murders he engineered, his megalomania, and his constant drinking. It presents a king corrupted by power and who, for his own personal…

Book details

List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 9/16/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 388
Size: 7.80" wide x 5.08" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792



List of Plates


List of Figures


List of Maps


Preface


Acknowledgements


Alexander's Reign: The Main Events


Map of Macedonia and Greece


Map of Alexander's Empire



Introduction: Uncovering the Legend



Alexander's Inheritance



Alexander's Boyhood



King at Last



The Very Gates of Asia



A Bridge of Corpses



Son of Ra, Son of Zeus



Lord of Asia



Conquest and Conspiracy



Bactria and Sogdiana



India



'We'll say Goodbye in Babylon'



Death and Disorder



Man and God



Alexander: The Great



Philip's Ghost


Notes


Bibliographic Essay


Index