Alexander's Worlds

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Alexander was heir to a small kingdom, and became ruler of multiple worlds, uniting the Greek archipelago with the territories of Persia, and creating an empire that spanned continents, reaching across the Mediterranean into Egypt as well as to the edge of the Himalayas. Now. How did the eastern Mediterranean – and central Asia – transform from the world of Athens and Persia to the world of Alexander?

Host: ​Lucy

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Further Reading

​Robin Lane Fox, Alexander the Great

Robin Lane Fox, ed., Brill's Companion to Ancient Macedon: Studies in the Archaeology and History of Macedon, 650 BC-300 AD 

Peter Green, The Hellenistic Age

Plutarch, The Age of Alexander

Music: "Evening Melodrama" by Kevin Macleod (www.incompetech.com)