Son of God / by Rebecca Dobbs, David Wallace and Michael Wood.

Format:

Video

Author/Creator:

Dobbs, Rebecca.

Contributor:

Wallace, David, producer.

Wood, Michael, 1948-

Series:

Academic Video Online

In the footsteps of Alexander ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Alexander.

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

Darius III, King of Persia, d. 330 B.C.

Darius.

Wood, Michael, 1948---Travel.

Wood, Michael.

Historic sites--Asia.

Historic sites.

Historic sites--Middle East.

Asia--Description and travel.

Asia.

Egypt--History--332-30 B.C.

Egypt.

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

Greece.

Middle East--Description and travel.

Middle East.

Genre:

Documentary.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (59 min.).

Place of Publication:

London, England : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), 1997.

Language Note:

In English.

Original language in English.

Summary:

Michael begins the series as 21-year-old Alexander and his Greek army set out to invade Asia and overthrow the Persian Empire. En route, he recounts Alexander's early years. His mother, Olympias, was intensely devoted to strange religious cults, but Alexander was tutored by Aristotle, one of the great philosophers. He was 21 when he succeeded to the throne in 336 BC, following the assassination of his father.The kingdom he inherited already dominated a Greece exhausted by the war between Athens and Sparta. Shortly after becoming king, Alexander journeyed from northern Greece into Turkey where, in 334 and 333 BC, he visited Troy, disbanded his boats, marched along the sea coast and then, in a famous story, cut the Gordian Knot. At Issus, on the Syrian border, Alexander routed Persian leader Darius and then marched South through Lebanon. After a long siege at the Phoenician city of Tyre, the Persians' naval base, Alexander famously ordered all but those who had fled to the temples to be put to death and the buildings to be set on fire.Thousands were slaughtered. Michael continues on, to Gaza in Palestine, to learn about Alexander's impact on the Islamic world. Across into Egypt, he traces the conqueror's trek to the oracle of Siwa, an oasis deep in the Western Desert, where Alexander was proclaimed Pharaoh of Egypt and Son of God, and and he founded Alexandria, destined to become one of the great cities of the ancient world. The episode ends as Alexander prepares to strike at the heart of the Persian Empire, today's Iran.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed Sept. 1, 2011).

Previously published as DVD.

OCLC:

767806074