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Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.: a Historical Biography Free FREE ALEXANDER OF MACEDON, 356-323 B.C.: A HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY PDF Peter Green,Eugene N. Borza | 672 pages | 22 Feb 2013 | University of California Press | 9780520275867 | English | Berkerley, United States The Lord of Asia - Alexander of Macedon B.C.: A Historical Biography Book file PDF easily for everyone and every device. You can download. Fri, 21 Dec GMT alexander of macedon. Explore the Home Gift Guide. Copyright Macedpn Business Information, Inc. Showing of reviews. Perhaps the most devastating indictment is his march through the Gedrosian Desert, when Green claims Alexander took the 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography route to set a new record, and as a result lost over 50, soldiers, women, and children that is certainly a different type of record. Is he a product of his time or a fundamental innovator? Green skillfully wends 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography way through what is propaganda, what can and cannot be known, and offers solid interpreations with full awareness of his own limitations. Green examines the various interpretations of his death — as disease or assassination. This image lasted to the Victorian Alexander of Macedon, when he was portrayed as a man of high ideals as well. Amazon Music Stream millions Alexander of Macedon songs. The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age. See all reviews. However, once Persia was conquered, he became the wealthiest man in the world, gaining an unslakable thirst for further conquest. Get to Know Us. In doing so, he demystifies Alexander and humanizes him into something we would recognize — a charismatic and brilliant, but flawed leader. Alexander never showed much interest in women and always preferred male companions. 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. 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. Sold by Phoenix wa llc and ships from Amazon Fulfillment. If you are a seller for this product, would Alexander of Macedon like to suggest updates through seller support? Nevertheless, these problems seem limited to the introduction and parts of the first chapter. The book is probably more appropriate to academic audiences or readers familiar with the ancient world, but I would also cautiously recommend it to newcomers. His dream was at times characterized as a benevolent interest in the brotherhood of man, sometimes as a brute interest 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography the exercise of power. Amazon Drive Cloud storage from Amazon. In terms of his orientation, Green is discreet: In a nutshell, it is one of the best biographies I have read in years, combining riveting narrative with thoughtful analysis of both context and our own assumptions. A Life of Alexander the Great. I have no criticisms of the text: Green sketches the situation of Greece at the time: Yet his origins and training do not fully explain the man. Green even argues that Macedonian propaganda covered up Alexanders first — 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography only — defeat at the first battle of Granicus. ComiXology Thousands of Digital Comics. Green recognizes that Alexander was a brilliant strategist, but also points out his flaws. Share your thoughts with other customers. But Philip proved to be an unusually cunning and shrewd bc. Read more Read less. In the end, power consumes itself. What Philip and Macedonia had to offer, Alexander made his own, but Philip and Macedonia also made Alexander form an important context for understanding Alexander himself. Get fast, free shipping with Amazon Prime. The prose is crisp and clear, and within a few pages readers become absorbed in the world that made Alexander, alezander then the story of how Alexander remade it. After conquering a territory, he would generally either co-opt the local leadership and move on. Similarly, he propagated his image wherever he went, setting a precedent for the display of power by later conquerors, and founded cities in his name, e. After he was named hegemon of the Hellenic League, many philosophers came to congratulate Alexander, but one was conspicuous by his absence: While mcedon a military genius, was he a megalomaniac who progressively became unhinged and finally thought of himself as an infallible God? Niography with the greatest enthusiasm. 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Privacy Overview This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Privacy Overview. Necessary Always Enabled. Sources of Information - Alexander of Macedon B.C.: A Historical Biography It was thus, somewhat prematurely, that he had bidden Darius address him when they exchanged letters. AfterGaugamela the claim looked a good deal more plausible. Thus Gaugamela marked a turning-point for Alexander in more ways than one. The Greeks, who had never taken his democratic professions very seriously, found this new development absolutely in character. For them he had always been a type-cast example of the ambitious tyrant, and now he was proceeding to vindicate their judgement. The effect on his Macedonian troops, however, was profound. From this time on, relations between Alexander and the army steadily deteriorated, culminating Alexander of Macedon as we shall see — in ugly episodes of mutiny Alexander of Macedon murder. The Macedonian old-guard barons, in particular, were shocked by their king's visible drift towards oriental despotism. For them Alexander's task in Asia was done, and the sooner he took them all home again the better. Parmenio told him, bluntly, that he ought rather to look back upon Macedonia than fix his gaze on the East. But Alexander's horizon of conquest was continually expanding; Macedonia, for him, had begun to seem very small and far away. The king himself understood his dilemma all too well. He would not, could not, abandon the vision of glory and empire that drove him on; but he went out of his way to conciliate those who opposed him most vehemently. At the same time, anxious to win favour among the Greeks — not surprisingly, with the Peloponnese in revolt — he wrote telling them that all their tyrannies were abolished, and they could henceforth live Alexander of Macedon their own laws. This sounded a fine and generous gesture; but the king's private instructions to Antipater seem to have been rather different. Alexander of Macedon all events, the tyrants of Sicyon, Pellene and Messenia continued in office; it would be simple enough, later, when all danger was past, to make Antipater himself the scapegoat for their retention see below, pp. Alexander's promise to 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography Plataea, however, was eventually honoured, perhaps as a safeguard against any resurgence of ambition byThebes. One of the trickiest problems the king had to face would only begin with his invasion of Persian soil. Hitherto he had been able to present himself as a liberator. In Asia Minor and Egypt the claim could be made to look convincing enough, despite those outbursts of pure terrorism down the Phoenician coast. Even for Babylonia, once proudly independent, the formula might just work. But once he set out on 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography road to Susa and Persepolis, he would have to think of a different formula. He could hardly claim to be liberating the Persians from themselves. Thus Alexander soon became, as the Marxists say, involved in a 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography which may well explain why his dispatches home now placed more emphasis on revenge than liberation as a motive for Alexander of Macedon crusade. Doubtless he took the same line with his Macedonian troops. However, if he was to prevent trouble in his rear — let alone pose as Darius' successor 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography he would have to conciliate the Persian nobility in no uncertain fashion; and this, again, Alexander of Macedon not endear him to his own men. A good many Iranian grandees did not hesitate to collaborate with the invader. There nevertheless remained a hard core of opposition, led by Persia's priestly caste, the Magi, whose hostility Alexander of Macedon Alexander was primarily religious in origin, and who regarded him as a mere heathen aggressor. In the eyes of this powerful group, his claim to the throne rested on force, and force alone. Their propaganda presented him, naturally enough, as a common usurper, a ravening lion sent for Persia's destruction. Alexander, who had studied the teachings of the Magi under Aristotle, seems to have been well aware of these objections.
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