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Catalogue details
- Call number
- 938.07092 A47 G67
- Author
- Peter Green
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Year published
- 1991
- ISBN
- 0520071654
- Format
- Hardcover
- Subject
- History & Geography
- Description
- xxxvii, 617 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm dimensions (in inches): 1.50 x 8.50 x 5.75
- Notes
- Alexander the Great, as portrayed in Green's vibrant, immensely readable biography, was a megalomaniac, a ruthless murderer of civilians, a charmingly persuasive liar who bribed his own troops and a political opportunist supremely indifferent to the idealistic yearnings later ascribed to him.