Aimless and Alexander the Great: A Grand Master Performance

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This is where we begin to see the full stature of the man – despite a weakness for occasionally calling himself ‘Little Nipper’…

Why ‘the Great’?

And why should we care?

The background

An auspicious birth

Can we be more specific?

A studious childhood

A complex marriage

Early promise

An increasingly maddening horse

Alexander’s greatest wish

The secret of his success

In private life

OK, if you prefer, in ‘personal’ life

Alexander and Hephaestion

Domestic matters

An active monarch

A quite needlessly complicated empire

Military skills

Economic impact

In Jerusalem

Sorry, Darius, did you say something?

Loose ends

Interment

The fate of the empire

Alexander’s legacy

Alexander today

The verdict of history

For further reading

A cri du coeur

-- Rex (rex@waitrose.com), June 16, 2002

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