Alexander the Great
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: June 29, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780802141491
Subjects: World history: BCE to c 500 CE; Royalty; Generals; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C; Biography/Autobiography; History; Greece; Historical - General; Biography & Autobiography / Historical; Biography; the Great,; 356-323 B.C; Alexander,
First sentence: WHEN the twenty-three-year-old Philip, third son of King Amyntas II, ascended the throne of Macedonia in the year 359 B.C., the throne was a thorny seat indeed.