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Alexander the Great Biography
The Life, Conquests and Mysterious Death of the Macedonian King Who Toppled the Persian Empire, from Philip's Court and Aristotle to Gaugamela, India and Babylon, in Plain EnglishBy Imad Muratspahic
Length2h 57m
About this audiobook
At twenty he inherited a rough kingdom on the northern edge of the Greek world. At thirty-two he was dead in Babylon, and his armies had marched from the Aegean Sea to the Indus River, broken the greatest empire on earth and changed the map of the ancient world for good. How did it happen, and how much of the legend is true? Alexander the Great Biography follows the whole life in clear, vivid, plain English: the kingdom and army built by Philip of Macedon, a boyhood with Aristotle, the battles of the Granicus, Issus and Gaugamela, the siege of Tyre, the burning of Persepolis, the mutiny on an Indian riverbank, the desert march home, and the fever in Babylon that ended it all. It is one readable biography for newcomers, not a textbook and not a history of all ancient Greece, and it is honest about its evidence: the ancient writers who tell the story lived centuries later, so wherever they disagree or a famous tale turns out to be legend, the book says so instead of choosing silently.
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GenreHistory
Length2 hrs 57 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 13, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Alexander the Great Biography
2Important Notice
3A Life Known Through Later Eyes
4Chapter 1: Philip's Kingdom: Macedon Learns to Win
5Chapter 2: A Horse, a Philosopher and a Murder at the Theatre
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6Chapter 3: King at Twenty and the Fall of Thebes
7Chapter 4: A Spear in Asian Soil: The Granicus
8Chapter 5: Issus, Tyre and Egypt: The Coast Falls
9Chapter 6: Gaugamela and the Burning of Persepolis
10Chapter 7: The Death of Darius and the War in Bactria
11Chapter 8: India: The Hydaspes and the Army That Said Enough
12Chapter 9: Down the Indus and Into the Gedrosian Desert
13Chapter 10: Susa, Opis and the Loss of Hephaestion
14Chapter 11: Babylon, 323 BC: How Alexander Died
15Chapter 12: The Successors and the Verdict of History
16What Remains of Alexander
17Quick Reference
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