Alexander the Great: Man and God - Couverture rigide

Worthington, Ian

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0582772249 ISBN 13 : 9780582772243

Editeur : Pearson Education Limited, 2003

Synopsis

Alexander The Great: Man and God

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

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’.

Endorsements:

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

 

 

Présentation de l'éditeur

He conquered territories on a superhuman scale and established an empire that stretched from Greece to India. He spread Greek culture and education throughout his empire, and was worshipped as a living god by many of his subjects. But how great is a leader responsible for the deaths on tens of thousands of people? A ruler who prefers constant warring to administering the peace? A man who believed he was a god, who murdered his friends, and recklessly put his soldiers lives at risk?

Ian Worthington delves into the successes and failures, his paranoia, the murders he engineered, his megalomania, and his constant drinking. It presents a king corrupted by power and who, for his own personal ends, sacrificed the empire his father had fought to establish.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Pearson Education Limited
• Date d'édition: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0582772249
• ISBN 13: 9780582772243
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 292