Alexander
Subtitle: Destiny and Myth
Contributors: Paul Cartledge (Foreword); Janet Lloyd (Translator)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: March 11, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780801879968
Subjects: History: World; Biography / Autobiography; History; Ancient - Greece; Historical - General; History / Ancient / General
First sentence: In 336, when Alexander succeeded his father Philip II, in circumstances to which we shall be returning, the Greek world and the Oriental world, after decades of warfare, were experiencing a period of relative calm.