Frank W. Walbank
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Rathbone Professor Emeritus of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology, University of Liverpool. Author of A Historical Commentary on Polybius and others.
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Alexander the Great was the king of Macedonia (336β323 bce), who overthrew the Achaemenid Empire, carried Macedonian arms to India, and laid the foundations for the Hellenistic world of territorial kingdoms. Already in his lifetime the subject of fabulous stories, he later became the hero of aβ¦
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