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Alexander the Great: A Reader [Paperback] [2012] (Author) Ian Worthington Unknown Binding

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This exciting new volume is an indispensable guide for undergraduates to the study of Alexander the Great, showing the problems of the ancient source material, and making it clear that there is no single approach to be taken.The eleven thematic chapters contain a broad selection of the most significant published articles about Alexander, examining the main areas of debate and sources Alexander's background Alexander's aims Alexander and the Greeks Alexander and Asia Alexander, India and the Final Years Alexander as General Alexander and "The unity of Mankind" Alexander and Deification Alexander and Conspiracies The 'Great'?The Reader has the distinctive feature of translating a substantial number of the more inaccessible primary sources; each chapter is also prefaced with a succinct introduction to the topic under consideration.

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John Williamson

Excellent collection of material

Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2004

Everything you could want to know about the problems and controversies affecting Alexander will be found in this book. A gem of a book, a must for anyone interested in Greek history.

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R. RODRIGUEZ

great price

Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2011

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this book is alittle dry and boring but when you need it for a class you do what you got to do. the price was also great comnpared to the book store and fast shipping.

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Frederick B. Gallaher

Don't spend too much on this puppy

Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2017

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Before I purchased this paperback I was tempted to purchase the hard cover. Now I'm glad I spent very little. There are some classic articles here throughout the book but good luck finding exactly when, during the history of mankind, that author actually wrote that classic article. That sort of rookie mistake by Dr. Worthington is beyond my understanding. Concerning his authorship of whether Alexander was truly "great" or not, I was surprised to find an insistence on faulting Alexander's character, repeatedly. Prejudice I can find anywhere along with, usually, a failure to comprehend and compensate for cultural differences from 2,300 years ago. I'd hoped not to find it so readily in the work of an academic.

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PEACE

MACEDONIANS ARE NOT GREEK!!!

Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2015

(IN A NUT SHELL) WHAT'S DISTURBING IS THAT THEIR ARE SO MANY WRITERS/HISTORIANS WITH PHD'S THAT KNOW HARDLY ANYTHING ABOUT MACEDONIA. THE TERM GREEK IS A MODERN CONCEPT, IDEA BASED ON MODERN WESTERN EUROPEAN ROMANCES THAT WANT TO RESURRECT INCORPORATE MACEDONIA(NS) IN A SO CALLED GREEK HOMELAND (DEMOCRACY OF ATHENS ANCIENT PAST). THIS INTERTWINING CONFUSING METHOD OF SO CALLED HISTORICAL FORM OF WRITINGS IS GENOCIDE TO THE ANCIENT AND MODERN MACEDONIANS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD PAST & PRESENT!!! TODAY'S UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE IS ENGLISH BUT THAT DOESN'T MAKE AN IRISHMAN ENGLISH OR IN FACT THE WORLDS POPULATION -RIGHT!!! MACEDONIANS HAD THEIR OWN FORM OF LANGUAGE CULTURE UNIQUE TO NO ONE IN EUROPE.
READERS PLEASE VISIT ALL TERRITORIES OF MACEDONIA THAT'S BEEN DIVIDED BY SURROUNDING COUNTRIES (WORLD POWERS OF THE 20th CENTURY-(UNITED MACEDONIA) TODAY MACEDONIANS HAVE NO HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE ATHENIAN REPUBLIC OF GREECE, THE HOME OF DEMOCRACY- HOW IRONIC FOR MACEDONIANS ANCIENT & PRESENT. PLEASE READ BOOKS, HISTORIES FROM THE MACEDONIAN SPECIALIST EUGENE .E. BORZA, JOHN SHEA, TO CLARIFY THE TRUTH. ALSO SEARCH -HISTORY OF MACEDONIA [...] RAINBOW EFA MACEDONIAN MINORITY OF GREECE [...] . WHEN YOU DENY MACEDONIANS AS RACE, CULTURE OR HISTORIES YOUR NOTHING BUT ANTI MACEDONIAN!!!

Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2004

This volume contains some interesting articles. Some submissions (Brunt pages 45-51; Narain pages 161-167) are truly rewarding and interesting. But others (Worthington pages 303-316) are just a waste of paper and ink. In general, the editor of this compilation of academic articles seems to lack empathy with the Ancient world to truly understand what he is dealing with. So the whole collection is unbalanced - in quality, perspective, scientific approach. Only readers who are already very familiar with academic studies about Alexander should be able to make a sharp distinction between the worthwile articles and the rubbish.
What annoys me is that of all the published articles, no single one is has a proper date. There is a long article by J.F.C. Fuller, who died in 1966. Fuller was born in 1878 (!), took up interest in Alexander in 1917 (!) and wrote his major works about Alexander around 1957. But Fuller's article in Worthington's reader is published without any proper dating, confusing readers to expect that it might be especially written for Worthington's 2003 edition of "A Reader". That can't be true. Mister Fuller would have been 125 years old!
So Worthington's edition - to me - seems like a hoax.
That doesn't mean that 'some' of the articles aren't truly worthwile. That's why there are still 2 stars in my rating. But in general: I fear that books like this tend to downgrade the overall reputation of a scientist / editor in the long run.

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Not my cup o'tea

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 21, 2010

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Not sure on Ian Worthington who appears to have a negative view point which appears to go against the grain of recent opinions for example Heckel and Bosworth

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