Project
The Last Years of Alexander the Great (330-323 BCE)
Division of Research Programs
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Mosaic of Alexander the Great (detail), House of the Faun, Pompeii.
Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Photo caption
Mosaic of Alexander the Great (detail), House of the Faun, Pompeii.
Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Rachel Kousser's book Alexander at the End of the World tells the story of Alexander the Great's final years, when he undertook a long journey through the unknown eastern borderlands of the Persian empire that tested his physical and mental limits.