Alexander the Great

London: Routledge 1992. 8vo. 336 pp, some minor creasing to dustwrapper. 0415072549 . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1992.

Paperback / softback. New. 'O'Brien has combined faultless scholarship with poetic vision to penetrate the events of Alexander's extraordinary life and reveal the tragic pattern obscured by these tumultous events. This is not only biography; it is art.' F Salvidio

published by Routledge, London and New York, 1994,. see description. first [large] paperback edition, xx,336pp, four maps: The Greek World 336BC, Alexander's Campaigns 334-323BC, From Pella to Susa 334-330BC, and India and Ocean 326-325BC, coloured-illustrated card covers, and recognizing the Alexander Mosaic and The God Dionysus mosaic, we can all guess what his invisible enemy was, near fine.

Hardback. New. Focuses on the role of alcohol in the life of Alexander the Great, O'Brien using Dionysus as a symbol of the destructive effects of alcohol on Alexander's psyche. A cluster of ambivalent considerations is explored: the heroic and the Dionysiac, the rational and the irrational, sanity and madness.

London: Routledge, 1994. . 1st soft-cover edition. Contents: pages very good and clean. Cover: corners slightly creased, otherwise very good, clean and bright. A very good, tight copy. 336 pp.

New. Despite Alexander the Great's unprecedented accomplishments, during the last seven years of his life, this indomitable warrior became increasingly unpredictable, sporadically violent, megalomaniacal, and suspicious of friends as well as enemies. What could have caused such a lamentable transformation? This biography seeks to answer that question by assessing the role of alcohol in Alexander the Great's life,… Read more about this item