An edition of Alexander the Great
(1953)
Alexander the Great
Updated ed.
by John Gunther
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A life of the warrior who, as a prince, tamed the powerful horse Bucephalus and, during his short reign as king, built an empire that covered almost all of the then-known world, including Greece, India, Egypt, and Persia.
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Kings and rulers, Generals, History, Juvenile literature, Biography, Macedonian Expansion (Greece : 359-323 B.C.) fast (OCoLC)fst01353599, Alexander, the great, 356 b.c.-323 b.c., Alexander, the great, 356 b.c.-323 b.c., juvenile literature, Greece, history, Europe, kings and rulers, Greece, juvenile literaturePlaces
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Table of Contents
The boy and the giant horse
In those days Greece was like this ...
Philip, the king, and Olympias, his queen
Alexander grows up
Alexander becomes king
The beginning of the reign
Persia, a distant country
The great adventure begins
Alexander wins his first great battle
Alexander cuts the Gordian Knot, wins a second battle, and sacks Tyre
Egypt and the Temple of Ammon-Ra
The end of the king of kings
Into Asia and beyond
Roxana, Alexander's wife, and the death of Cleitus
Elephants at the gates of India
Mutiny
The return
Alexander conquers everything except himself
The death of Alexander
Afterwards.
Edition Notes
Originally published: New York : Random House, 1953.
Includes index.
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