ALEXANDER THE GREAT: a Biography

by Fox, Robin

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NY:: Dial,, 1974. Hardcover; cover tips bumped; otherwise good.. + notes, bibliography, addenda, index. With 16 plates of b&w photos + 7 b&w maps. First American edn. of 1973 British first issue. ||| Alexander (356-323 B.C.); was taught by Aristotle; acclaimed king of Macedonia at age 20; lord of the Persian empire at 26; invaded India at 30; dead at age 33 after a prolonged banquet & drinking bout. ||| Iron-willed, ruthless, among the greatest military generals in the world; his campaigns spread Hellenism from Gibraltar to the Punjab in just 13 years.