The remarkable life of Alexander the Great, one of the greatest military geniuses of all time, vividly told by one of the world's leading experts in Greek history. With all the intensity, insight, and narrative drive that made The Spartans such a hit with critics and readers, Paul Cartledge's Alexander the Great: glowingly illuminates the brief but iconic life of Alexander (356-323 BC), king of Macedon, conqueror of the Persian Empire, and founder of a new world order. Cartledge, the distinguished scholar and historian long acknowledged as the leading international authority on ancient Sparta and Greece, brilliantly evokes Alexander's remarkable political and military accomplishments, leads us along the geographical path of his victorious armies, and compellingly charting the tremendous field of this warrior hero's influence. Alexander's legacy has had an astounding impact on military tacticians, scholars, and statesmen—in his own lifetime and in ours. In various countries and at various times he has been seen as hero, holy man, Christian saint, a new Achilles, philosopher, scientist, prophet, and visionary. Cartledge brilliantly explains why and how Alexander is endlessly fascinating, with a view to a better understanding of such fundamental topics as charismatic leadership, imperialism, and Middle Eastern geopolitics.

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著名古典學傢。曾就讀於牛津大學，並獲得牛津大學博士學位。自1979年起執教於劍橋大學，是該校古典文學院(希臘曆史專業的教授，同時在劍橋大學卡萊爾學院擔任教職。著述等身，近期的著作包括：《插圖本劍橋古希臘史》；《希臘人：文明的熔爐》；《斯巴達和拉科尼亞：從公元前1300至前362年的區域史》；《希臘人：自我與他者的肖像；《斯巴達人：一部英雄的史詩》；《亞曆山大大帝：尋找新的曆史》；《溫泉關：改變世界的戰役》。曾主編兩套叢書並兼任三種學術刊物的編輯；達剋沃斯齣版社的古代曆史顧問。倫敦古物專傢學會會員。曾榮獲希臘共和國頒發的“金十字”榮譽勛章。2004年，他被斯巴達授予榮譽市民稱號，以錶彰他在斯巴達曆史研究領域中所作齣的傑齣貢獻。