Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great's Empire

by Robin Waterfield

Book Overview

Alexander the Great conquered an enormous empire--stretching from Greece to the Indian subcontinent--and his death triggered forty bloody years of world-changing events. 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195395239
• ISBN13: 9780195395235
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.5"