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ALEXANDER, THE GREAT OCCUPIER

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Alexander the Great Occupier 
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By Guy MacLean Rogers
Guy MacLean Rogers, a professor of history at Wellesley College, is the author of "Alexander: The Ambiguity of Greatness" (Random House, 2004).

November 24 2004

More than 2,300 years ago, Alexander the Great and a pan-Hellenic army conquered the Persian empire in less than a decade, never losing a battle. Before he died at the age of 32, Alexander ruled an empire that extended from Greece to India. 

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