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Best books to learn Alexander the Great, in order
Every surviving account of Alexander was written at least three hundred years after he died, all of them drawing on lost contemporaries, and the result is that the same evidence yields a visionary who dreamed of uniting mankind to some historians and a brutal alcoholic warlord to others.
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Alexander the Great: the best books to read, in order
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- How should I approach learning alexander the great?
- Every surviving account of Alexander was written at least three hundred years after he died, all of them drawing on lost contemporaries, and the result is that the same evidence yields a visionary who dreamed of uniting mankind to some historians and a brutal alcoholic warlord to others.
- What's a good book to start alexander the great with?
- A strong starting point is Alexander of Macedon by Peter Green. The ordered reading paths above show exactly where it fits and what to read next.