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1 online resource (1 audio file (4hr., 22 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Bronson Pinchot. |
| Summary |
In this succinct portrait of Alexander the Great, distinguished scholar and historian Norman Cantor draws on the major writings of Alexander's contemporaries as well as the most recent psychological and cultural studies to illuminate this most legendary of men-a great figure in the ancient world whose puzzling personality greatly fueled his military accomplishments. Cantor describes Alexander's ambiguous relationship with his father, Philip II of Macedon; his oedipal involvement with his mother, the Albanian princess Olympias; and his bisexuality. He traces Alexander's attempts to bridge the East and West, using Achilles, hero of the Trojan War, as his model. Finally, Cantor explores Alexander's view of himself in relation to the pagan gods of Greece and Egypt. More than a biography, Cantor's Alexander the Great is a psychological rendering of a man of his time. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C.
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Generals -- Greece -- Biography.
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Greece -- Kings and rulers -- Biography.
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Greece -- History -- Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C.
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Ranieri, Dee.
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Pinchot, Bronson. Narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781982468897 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1982468890 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT10026460 |
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