Synopsis
Brian Walden examines Alexander the Great's reputation as the hero's hero and claims that it doesn't stand up to close scrutiny. He accepts that the Macedonian ruler's conquest of Asia in the fourth-century BC was an extraordinary achievement, and notes that Napoleon kept a history of his deeds as bedside reading. But he asks whether a man who could casually spear to death a drinking companion who had saved his life should be honoured for ever as a hero.
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