Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great's Empire (repost)
Robin Waterfield, "Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great's Empire"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0195395239 | 304 pages | EPUB | 1 MB
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0195395239 | 304 pages | EPUB | 1 MB
Alexander the Great conquered an enormous empire–stretching from Greece to the Indian subcontinent–and his death triggered forty bloody years of world-changing warfare. These were years filled with high adventure, intrigue, passion, assassinations, dynastic marriages, treachery, shifting alliances, and mass slaughter on battlefield after battlefield. And while the men fought on the field, the women, such as Alexander's mother Olympias, schemed from their palaces and pavilions.