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Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C. : a historical biography /
Until recently, popular biographers and most scholars viewed Alexander the Great as a genius with a plan, a romantic figure pursuing his vision of a united world. His dream was at times characterized as a benevolent interest in the brotherhood of man, sometimes as a brute interest in the exercise of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkerley :
University of California Press,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Hellenistic culture and society ;
11. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Until recently, popular biographers and most scholars viewed Alexander the Great as a genius with a plan, a romantic figure pursuing his vision of a united world. His dream was at times characterized as a benevolent interest in the brotherhood of man, sometimes as a brute interest in the exercise of power. Green, a Cambridge-trained classicist who is also a novelist, 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. Green describes his Alexander as ""not only the most brilliant (an. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (617 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520954694 0520954696 9780520275867 0520275861 9781299199873 1299199879 0520071662 9780520071667 |