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Alexander the Great : a life in legend

Alexander the Great (356-323 BCE) precipitated immense historical change in the Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. This book gathers hundreds of the colourful Alexander legends that have been told and retold around the globe. It introduces us the historical Alexander and then to the Alexander of legend.
Print Book, English, 2008
Yale University Press, New Haven (Conn.) [etc.], 2008
XVII, [1], 314 p., [16] t. ill. 24 cm
9780300112030, 0300112033
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