Alexander the Great

<p>Alexander the Great conquered territories on a superhuman scale and established an empire that stretched from Greece to India. He spread Greek culture and education throughout his empire and was worshipped as a living god by many of his subjects. But how great is a leader responsible for the deaths on tens of thousands of people? A ruler who prefers constant warring to administering the peace? A man who believed he was a god who murdered his friends and recklessly put his soldiers lives at risk?</p> <p>Ian Worthington delves into Alexander's successes and failures his paranoia the murders he engineered his megalomania and his constant drinking. It presents a king corrupted by power and who for his own personal ends sacrificed the empire his father had fought to establish.</p> <p> </p>