{"id":20645,"date":"2026-04-24T13:52:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T17:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=20645"},"modified":"2026-04-24T14:53:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T18:53:24","slug":"alexander-the-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=20645","title":{"rendered":"Alexander the Great"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So I browsed through the South Amboy Library one day and came across some interesting books by the children's section. One of the books I borrowed is <strong>Alexander the Great - Master of the Ancient World by Doug Wilhelm<\/strong>, from the Wicked History series. This drew my desire to learn about folks in history that I should already have known. It's never too late, so I shall start with Alexander the Great. I will prepare a spreadsheet for this since it's a historical figure with a timeline. Wilhelm's book will not be the only resource here. The spreadsheet shall be called \"Alexander the Great Study\" with Wilhelm's map of Alexander's route, I shall save it in my library drive, Academic\/History folder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here's some of Wilhelm's recommendation for further reading:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Adam, Simon. <strong>Alexander the Great: The Boy Soldier Who Conquered the World<\/strong>. 2005 (64 pages): <em>A concise visual biography of his life, from childhood to military conquests.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Behnke, Alison. <strong>The Conquests of Alexander the Great<\/strong>. 2007 (160 pages): <em>Account of his successes and failures as a commander.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Guerber, H. A. <strong>The Story of the Greeks<\/strong>. 2014 (190 pages): <em>History of Greece.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>McGowen, Tom. <strong>Alexander the Great: Conqueror of the Ancient World<\/strong>. 2006 (160 pages): <em>Blends historical facts with lore to tell the story of his childhood, education, and rise to power.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pearson, Anne. <strong>Ancient Greece<\/strong>. 2007 (72 pages): <em>A colorful look at the history, people, and customs of ancient Greece.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sounders, Dr. Nicholas. <strong>The Life of Alexander the Great<\/strong>. 2006 (48 pages): <em>Graphic novel format<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Robert, Katherine. <strong>I Am the Great Horse<\/strong>. 2006 (401 pages): <em>Fiction, the war horse Bucephalus recounts his adventures from 344-323 B.C. with Alexander.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/g1BRGEn.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I browsed through the South Amboy Library one day and came across some interesting books by the children's section. One of the books I borrowed is Alexander the Great - Master of the Ancient World by Doug Wilhelm, from &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=20645\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20645"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20651,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20645\/revisions\/20651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}