Spring 2006

AHC 325 • Alexander the Great-W

Course Description

including his education, generalship, deification, nature of kingship, and attitudes toward Greeks and non-Greeks. Class sessions will consist mostly student presentations of topics and general discussion. There will be two short and one longer paper totaling approx. 15 pages plus handouts prepared by student presenters. Books to be used (tentative): Peter Green, Alexander the Great: A Historical Biography A. B. Bosworth, Conquest and Empire: the Reign of Alexander the Great Arrian, The Campaigns of Alexander Plutarch, The Age of Alexander James Romm, Pamela Mensch, trans. Alexander The Great: Selections >From Arrian, Diodorus, Plutarch, And Quintus Curtius

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