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Author Everitt, Anthony, author.

Title Alexander the Great : his life and his mysterious death / Anthony Everitt.

Publication Info. New York : Random House, [2019]

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  B ALEXANDER THE GREAT    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  BIOGRAPHY ALEXANDER    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  B ALEXANDE    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Biography  B-ALEXANDER EVE    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  92 ALEXANDER    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  B ALEXANDER    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Biographies  BIOG ALEXANDER THE GREAT    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xviii, 464 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Summary The life of Alexander the Great took him to every corner of the ancient world. His memory and glamour persist, and his early death at thirty-three has kept him evergreen in our imaginations. But who was he in his own time? Naturally inquisitive, fascinated by science and exploration, Alexander exhibited respect for traditions as his empire grew-- yet glorified war and was known to commit acts of great cruelty. Did Alexander die of natural causes, or did his marshals, angered by his tyrannical behavior, kill him? Everitt judges Alexander's life against the criteria of his own age and considers all his contradictions. -- adapted from jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Preface: The king takes a holiday -- Goat kings -- The apprentice -- 'The bull is wreathed' -- The lone wolf -- First blood -- Undoing the knot -- The empire strikes back -- Immortal longings -- At the house of the camel -- 'Passing brave to be a king' -- Treason! -- War without end -- A passage to India -- Show me the way to go home -- Last things -- Funeral games.
Subject Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C.
Greece -- History -- Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C.
Generals -- Greece -- Biography.
Greece -- Kings and rulers -- Biography.
Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C. (OCoLC)fst01800513
Macedonian Expansion (Greece : 359-323 B.C.) (OCoLC)fst01353599
Generals. (OCoLC)fst00939841
Kings and rulers. (OCoLC)fst00987694
Greece. (OCoLC)fst01208380
Chronological Term 359-323 B.C.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Biographies.
ISBN 9780425286524 (hardcover)
0425286525 (hardcover)
9780425286548 (electronic book)
0425286541 (electronic book)
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