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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Green, Peter, 1924-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1991.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Philip of Macedon -- The garden of Midas -- From a view to a death -- The keys of the kingdom -- The captain-general -- The road to Issus -- Intimations of immortality -- The Lord of Asia -- The quest for ocean -- How many miles to Babylon? -- Propaganda at the Granicus. 
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