Alexander the Great: Man and God - Hardcover

Worthington, Ian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0582772249 ISBN 13: 9780582772243

Verlag: Pearson Education Limited, 2003

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Presents the life and accomplishments of the famous Macedonian general and king.

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Ian Worthington is Professor of Greek History at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

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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Ian Worthington¿s fascinating account of Alexander the Great¿s colourful, but ultimately destructive, life is a welcome addition to the legend surrounding the most famous figure in ancient history.

He delves underneath the tales of epic success and heroism into the darker side of Alexander¿s personality; the drinking, murderous rages and paranoia to question whether he really deserves to be called ¿Great¿.

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Professor Worthington's Alexander is a bit of a chameleon. He was at once an eminently practical and incomparably successful general and yet a dreamer who saw himself as literally a son of Zeus.

His character, personality and temper were not improved by his binge-drinking and he ended by being more of an oriental potentate than a Macedonian warrior king. His most fatal flaw was to allow himself to be haunted by the ghost of his father Philip, with whom he waged a battle of emulation to the premature end of his own life.

Ian Worthington's book has many virtues, including a clear narrative that shows intimate familiarity with the primary sources and secondary literature. It is accessibly written in an unemotional style for a wide general readership.

Professor Paul Cartledge, Professor of Greek History, Clare College, Cambridge

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Ian Worthington brings an immediacy to ancient history that is exciting and compelling. The characters live and breathe and there are many vivid moments of drama, such as Philip of Macedon acknowledging the cheering crowds as his assassin plunges in the dagger, that stay in the mind long after you have put the book down. A ripping read.

Terry Jones

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Pearson Education Limited
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0582772249
• ISBN 13: 9780582772243
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Riccardo Bacigalupo; riccardo.bacigalupo@sanoma.it; ; Sanoma Italia Via Arconati, 1 �; Milano; 20135; Italien