This is the story of one of the great forgotten wars of history - which led to the disintegration of one of the biggest empires the world has ever seen. Alexander the Great built up his huge empire in little more than a decade, stretching from Greece in the West, via Egypt, Syria, Babylonia, and Persia through to the Indian sub-continent in the East. After his death in 323 BC, ...(展开全部)

This is the story of one of the great forgotten wars of history - which led to the disintegration of one of the biggest empires the world has ever seen. Alexander the Great built up his huge empire in little more than a decade, stretching from Greece in the West, via Egypt, Syria, Babylonia, and Persia through to the Indian sub-continent in the East. After his death in 323 BC, ...(展开全部)

[英]罗宾·沃特菲尔德(Robin Waterfield)，英国古典学者，曾先后任职于剑桥国王学院、纽卡斯特大学和圣安德鲁斯大学，现为独立作家，定居于希腊南部。译有超过25部古希腊典籍，著有The Making of a King: Antigonus Gonatas of Macedon and the Greeks (2021)、Olympia: The Story of the Ancient Olympic Games (2018)、Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens: A History of Ancient Greece (2018)、Taken at the Flood: The Roman Conquest of Greece (2014)等书。

[英]罗宾·沃特菲尔德(Robin Waterfield)，英国古典学者，曾先后任职于剑桥国王学院、纽卡斯特大学和圣安德鲁斯大学，现为独立作家，定居于希腊南部。译有超过25部古希腊典籍，著有The Making of a King: Antigonus Gonatas of Macedon and the Greeks (2021)、Olympia: The Story of the Ancient Olympic Games (2018)、Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens: A History of Ancient Greece (2018)、Taken at the Flood: The Roman Conquest of Greece (2014)等书。

[英]罗宾·沃特菲尔德(Robin Waterfield)，英国古典学者，曾先后任职于剑桥国王学院、纽卡斯特大学和圣安德鲁斯大学，现为独立作家，定居于希腊南部。译有超过25部古希腊典籍，著有The Making of a King: Antigonus Gonatas of Macedon and the Greeks (2021)、Olympia: The Story of the Ancient Olympic Games (2018)、Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens: A History of Ancient Greece (2018)、Taken at the Flood: The Roman Conquest of Greece (2014)等书。

[英]罗宾·沃特菲尔德(Robin Waterfield)，英国古典学者，曾先后任职于剑桥国王学院、纽卡斯特大学和圣安德鲁斯大学，现为独立作家，定居于希腊南部。译有超过25部古希腊典籍，著有The Making of a King: Antigonus Gonatas of Macedon and the Greeks (2021)、Olympia: The Story of the Ancient Olympic Games (2018)、Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens: A History of Ancient Greece (2018)、Taken at the Flood: The Roman Conquest of Greece (2014)等书。

Alexander the Great, perhaps the most commanding leader in history, united his empire and his army by the titanic force of his will. His death at the age of thirty-two spelled the end of that unity. The story of Alexander’s conquest of the Persian empire is known to many readers, but the dramatic and consequential saga of the empire’s collapse remains virtually untold. It is a...(展开全部)

This book is an exploration of the process and consequences of the campaigns of Alexander the Great of Macedon (who reigned from 336 to 323 BC), focusing on the effect of his monarchy upon the world of his day. A detailed running narrative of the actual campaigns from the Danube to the Indus is complemented and enlarged upon by thematic studies on the reaction in Greece to Mace...(展开全部)