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- Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great Hardcover – 16 July 2024
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Jul 16, 2024 · In Alexander at the End of the World, renowned classicist and art history professor Rachel Kousser vividly brings to life Alexander's labyrinthine, treacherous final years, weaving together a brilliant series of epic battles, stunning landscapes, and nearly insurmountable obstacles.
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1 day ago · July 14, 2024. ALEXANDER AT THE END OF THE WORLD: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great, by Rachel Kousser. It is difficult to reach the end of the world when you don’t know where it is. That was the recurrent, ultimately insurmountable, challenge faced by the empire-building Macedonian king Alexander the Great during the last ...
Jul 13, 2024 · Alexander, the brilliant young Macedonian king remembered as “the Great,” has frequently been compared to the mythic Greek hero Achilles. Both were beloved by their soldiers and almost invincible.
Jul 16, 2024 · Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great, Rachel Kousser (Mariner Books, July 2024) Kousser has subtitled her book “The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great” and writes that “Historians pass over these years quickly, or highlight only a few lurid incidents”, that these final years of ...
Jul 14, 2024 · Alexander was a difficult, often reckless leader who at times needed saving from himself. On a hunt in 328 B.C., their glory-seeking king insisted on killing a lion single-handed.
Aug 2, 2024 · Alexander At the End of the World: the Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great, by Rachel Kousser, published in July, 2024, is a biography of Alexander the Great that picks up his life story from his conquest of Persia through to his death.
