The conquests of Alexander the Great / Waldemar Heckel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heckel, Waldemar, 1949-

Series:

Key conflicts of classical antiquity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C.

Alexander.

Greece--History--Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C.

Greece.

History.

Physical Description:

xxi, 218 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Summary:

In 325 BCE, Alexander and his conquering army prepared to return home, after overcoming everything in their path: armies, terrain, climate, all invariably hostile. Some traveled by sea, some along the coastal desert, to consolidate their victory and contemplate the magnitude of their accomplishments. Little did they know that within two years, their beloved king would be dead and their labors seemingly wasted, left only with the scars of combat and slowly fading memories of that glorious adventure in the east." Tracing the rise and eventual fall of one of the most successful military commanders in history, Waldemar Heckel engagingly and with great detail shows us how Alexander earned his appellation, The Great.

Contents:

2 How Do We Know? Sources for Alexander the Great 5

3 The Macedonian Background 13

4 The Persian Enemy 31

5 Conquest of the Achaemenids 41

6 Resistance on Two Fronts 87

7 Conquest of the Punjab 112

8 The Ocean and the West 126

9 The Long Road from Susa to Babylon 142

Appendix 1 Alexander's Officers 153

Appendix 2 Numbers of Troops 158

Appendix 3 The Administration of the Empire 164.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-204) and index.

ISBN:

9780521842471

0521842476

OCLC:

144774189

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