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?
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.