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Alexander the Great and the Macedonian Empire, Kenneth W. Harl

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Alexander the Great and the Macedonian Empire, Kenneth W. Harl

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eng

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Alexander the Great and the Macedonian Empire

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683196903

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Kenneth W. Harl

Series statement

The great courses, ancient & medieval history

Summary

In this course, Professor Harl examines not only the career of Alexander but also the historical, military, and social conditions that produced this greatest of conquerors. He describes the world that Alexander inherited, the world that he manipulated, and the world that he left in his wake. In the process, Dr. Harl debunks centuries of misrepresentaions and mythologies about Alexander

Table Of Contents

pt. 1. Lecture 1. Alexander the Great, conqueror or tyrant? -- Lecture 2. Greece in the age of Hegemonies -- Lecture 3. Achaemenid Persia -- Lecture 4. The world of early Macedon -- Lecture 5. Philip II and the Macedonian way of war -- Lecture 6. The third sacred war -- Lecture 7. The Macedonian conquest of Greece -- Lecture 8. The league of Corinth -- Lecture 9. Alexander, heir apparent -- Lecture 10. Securing the inheritance, 336-335 B.C. -- Lecture 11. The invasion of Asia -- Lecture 12. The battle of the Granicuspt. 2. Lecture 13. The turning point -- Issus and Tyre -- Lecture 14. Alexander, pharaoh of Egypt -- Lecture 15. Heroes, oracles, and the gods -- Lecture 16. The campaign of Gaugamela -- Lecture 17. The conquest of Iran -- Lecture 18. Alexander on the rim of the world -- Lecture 19. Governing and taxing the empire -- Lecture 20. Alexander and the Macedonian opposition -- Lecture 21. The invasion of India -- Lecture 22. The battle of the Hydaspes -- Lecture 23. Mutiny and withdrawal -- Lecture 24. The Gedrosian Desert and voyage of Nearchuspt. 3. Lecture 25. Deification and succession -- Lecture 26. Alexander and the Macedonians, Opis -- Lecture 27. Alexander and the Greeks, the Lamian War -- Lecture 28. The Diadochoi, 323-316 B.C. -- Lecture 29. The partition of the empire, 316-301 B.C. -- Lecture 30. The Hellenistic concert of powers -- Lecture 31. Macedonian courts in the Near East -- Lecture 32. The Hellenization of the Near East -- Lecture 33. The monetization of the Near East -- Lecture 34. Hellenization and the gods -- Lecture 35. The limits of Hellenization -- Lecture 36. Alexander the Great and the shadow of Rome

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