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Zusatztext "[The book] drives forward, clarified by Green's easy command of the material and saturated with his sense of that gorgeous, raging, brilliant time." Informationen zum Autor Peter Green is Dougherty Centennial Professor of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age (California, 1990 Klappentext "As one reads through Peter Green's enthralling life of Alexander . . . one feels every strand of the mythical story coming apart. . . . Green takes a very bold revisionist stand against the imperial vainglory of antiquity."--Christopher Hitchens, Los Angeles Times Book Review "In every age, cultures both East and West have cast and recast [Alexander] in a variety of heroic molds, although, as demonstrated in Peter Green's impressive biography (a 1974 study published in England and published here for the first time), the myths may well be more admirable than the man."--Erich Segal, Washington Post Book World "Green's portrait will discomfit those who seek consistency in behavior (and those who have already made up their minds about Alexander): it is a complex, multi-dimensioned figure which should appeal to this troubled age."--Eugene Borza, The Classical World Zusammenfassung Portrays Alexander as both a complex personality and a single-minded general, a man capable of such diverse expediencies as patricide or the massacre of civilians. In this title, the author describes his Alexander as "the most brilliant (and ambitious) field commander in history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Preface to the 2013 Reprint Preface to the 1991 Reprint Preface and Acknowledgements List of Maps and Battle Plans Key to Abbreviations Table of Dates 1 Philip of Macedon 2 The Gardens of Midas 3 From a View to a Death 4 The Keys of the Kingdom 5 The Captain-General 6 The Road to lssus 7 Intimations of Immortality 8 The Lord of Asia 9 The Quest for Ocean 10 How Many Miles to Babylon? Appendix: Propaganda at the Granicus Notes and References Sources of Information Genealogical Table Index...
