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Alexander and the East - The Tragedy of Triumph (Paperback, Revised)
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Alexander and the East - The Tragedy of Triumph (Paperback, Revised)
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In this study Brian Bosworth looks at the critical period between
329 and 325 BC, when Alexander the Great was active in Central Asia
and what is now Pakistan. He documents Alexander's relations with
the peoples he conquered, and addresses the question of what it
meant to be on the receiving end of the conquest, drawing a bleak
picture of massacre and repression. At the same time Alexander's
views of empire are investigated, his attitude to his subjects, and
the development of his concepts of personal divinity and universal
monarchy. Analogies are thus drawn with the Spanish conquest of
Mexico, which has a comparable historiographical tradition and
parallels many of Alexander's dealings with his subjects. Although
of concern to the specialist, this book is equally directed at the
general reader interested in the history of Alexander and the
morality of empire.
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