Alexander the Great by Ian Worthington

Alexander the Great by Ian Worthington

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 murders he engineered, his megalomania, and his constant drinking. It presents a king corrupted by power and who, for his own personal ends, sacrificed the empire his father had fought to establish.

'Ian Worthington's book has many virtues, including a clear narrative that shows initmate familiarity with the primary sources and secondary literatureIt is accessibly written in an unemotional style.'

The Anglo-Hellenic Review, Spring 2005

Ian Worthington is Professor of History, University of Missouri-Columbia. He is the author of many books on ancient Greek history including Persuasion: Greek Rhetoric in Action and Demosthenes (Routledge).

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ISBN 13	9781405801621
ISBN 10	140580162X
Title	Alexander the Great
Author	Ian Worthington
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published	2004-09-16
Number of pages	388
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