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Alexander's heirs : the age of the successors
\"Alexander's Heirs offers a narrative account of the approximately forty years following the death of Alexander the Great, during which his generals vied for control of his vast empire, and through their conflicts and politics ultimately created the Hellenistic Age. Makes full use of primary and secondary sources. Accessible to a broad audience of students, university scholars, and the educated general reader. Explores important scholarly debates on the Diadochi \"-- Provided by publisher.
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Alexander's heirs
Alexander’s Heirs offers a narrative account of the approximately forty years following the death of Alexander the Great, during which his generals vied for control of his vast empire, and through their conflicts and politics ultimately created the Hellenistic Age. -Offers an account of the power struggles between Alexander’s rival generals in the forty year period following his death -Discusses how Alexander’s vast empire ultimately became the Hellenistic World -Makes full use of primary and secondary sources -Accessible to a broad audience of students, university scholars, and the educated general reader -Explores important scholarly debates on the Diadochi
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Alexander the Great
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.
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Alexander The Great
This exciting new edition is an indispensable guide for undergraduates to the study of Alexander the Great, showing the problems of the ancient source material, and making it clear that there is no single approach to be taken.The twelve thematic chapters contain a broad selection of the most significant published articles about Alexander, examining the main areas of debate and discussion:
The Sources
Alexander's Influences and the Macedonian Background
Alexander's Aims
Alexander's Battles and Generalship
Alexander and the Greeks
Alexander and the Persian Empire
Alexander, India and the Gedrosian Desert
From Mass Marriage to Death
Alexander and the 'Unity of Mankind'
Alexander and Deification
Alexander and Conspiracies
Alexander: The 'Great'?
The Reader has the distinctive feature of translating a substantial number of the more inaccessible primary sources; each chapter is also prefaced with a succinct introduction to the topic under consideration.
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