Alexander The Great
Subtitle: Selections From Arrian, Diodorus, Plutarch, And Quintus Curtius
Contributors: Pamela Mensch (Editor); James S. Romm (Editor, Introduction, Translator)
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company
Published: April 15, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9780872207271
Subjects: Humanities; History: World; Europe - Greece; Alexander,; the Great,; History; Biography / Autobiography; General; 356-323 B.C; Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C; Biography; Generals; Greece
First sentence: [Plutarch 2] That Alexander, on his father's side, was a descendant of Heracles by Caranus, and on his mother's a descendant of Aeacus by Neoptolemus, has never been called into question.