The Conquests of Alexander the Great

Informationen zum Autor Waldemar Heckel is a professor in the department of Greek and Roman studies at the University of Calgary. A scholar of the age of Alexander the Great, he is the author of The Marshals of Alexander's Empire and Who's Who in the Age of Alexander the Great: Prosopography of Alexander's Empire, which was listed by the Times Literary Supplement as among 'the best books of 2006'. Dr Heckel is one of the founding editors of the Ancient History Bulletin and has collaborated with J. C. Yardley on a number of translations of, and commentaries on, the Alexander Historians. Klappentext Offering dynamic coverage of the battles of a superior tactician! this study of Alexander the Great looks at the strategies and techniques of one of the most successful military commanders in history. Zusammenfassung Waldemar Heckel provides an overview of the conquests of Alexander the Great. In an engaging and balanced account of key military events! he shows how Alexander imposed his will on the willing and how the defeated were no longer capable of resisting his military might. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. How do we know? Sources for Alexander the Great; 3. The Macedonian background; 4. The Persian enemy; 5. Conquest of the Achaemenids; 6. Resistance on two fronts; 7. Conquest of the Punjab; 8. The ocean and the West; 9. The long road from Susa to Babylon.

Product details

• Authors: Waldemar Heckel
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2007
• EAN: 9780521842471
• ISBN: 978-0-521-84247-1
• Series: Key Conflicts of Classical Antiquity
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book; HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Ancient / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, military history, HISTORY / Military / Ancient, Ancient World, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, BCE to c 500 CE, Ancient warfare, BCE period – Protohistory