Alexander the Great: the invisible enemy : a biography
O'Brien, John Maxwell, 1939-1992
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Focuses on the role of alcohol in the life of Alexander the Great, O'Brien using Dionysus as a symbol of the destructive effects of alcohol on Alexander's psyche. A cluster of ambivalent considerations is explored: the heroic and the Dionysiac, the rational and the irrational, sanity and madness.
Main title:
Alexander the Great: the invisible enemy : a biography / John Maxwell O'Brien.
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Imprint:
London : Routledge, 1992.
Collation:
xx,336p. : maps ; 24cm.
Notes:
Bibliography: p279-322.-Includes index.
ISBN:
9780415072540
Dewey class:
938.107092B/ALE938.07AL(014)
Local class:
938.07AL(014)
Language:
English
BRN:
1461976
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