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  • 4 - To the Ends of the World: What the Campaign Was All About

  • from Part I - Alexander’s Life and Career
  • Edited by Daniel Ogden, University of Exeter
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Alexander the Great
    Published online:
    04 January 2024
    Print publication:
    18 January 2024, pp 67-81

  • Summary

    The reason for Alexander’s life and work simply put was conquest and the quest for everlasting glory. He was a young man dead before his thirty-third birthday, the conqueror of the old adversary Persia, having led the most proficient army the world had to this time ever seen to victory after victory. His desire for fame and triumph at the time of his death had not been fulfilled. He had plans for further conquests in Arabia and across the western Mediterranean. Only his death ended his pursuit of these driving forces in his life.