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...

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1. Verfasser: Worthington, Ian
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (389 pages)
ISBN:9781317866459
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