TY - BOOK AU - Gunther,John TI - Alexander the Great AV - DF234.25 .G8 2007 U1 - 938.07092 GUN PY - 1964/// CY - Louisville, Ky. PB - American Printing House for the Blind, KW - Alexander, KW - Generals KW - Greece KW - Biography KW - Juvenile literature KW - History KW - Macedonian expansion, 359-323 B.C KW - Kings and rulers N1 - Contracted braille; The boy and the giant horse -- In those days Greece was like this ... -- Philip, the king, and Olympias, his queen -- Alexander grows up -- Alexander becomes king -- The beginning of the reign -- Persia, a distant country -- The great adventure begins -- Alexander wins his first great battle -- Alexander cuts the Gordian Knot, wins a second battle, and sacks Tyre -- Egypt and the Temple of Ammon-Ra -- The end of the king of kings -- Into Asia and beyond -- Roxana, Alexander's wife, and the death of Cleitus -- Elephants at the gates of India -- Mutiny -- The return -- Alexander conquers everything except himself -- The death of Alexander -- Afterwards; Transcribed from: New York : Random House, 1953 N2 - A life of the warrior who, as a prince, tamed the powerful horse Bucephalus and, during his short reign as king, built an empire that covered almost all of the then-known world, including Greece, India, Egypt, and Persia. UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0701/2006032133-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip072/2006032133.html ER -