{"id":2967,"date":"2008-12-26T15:05:28","date_gmt":"2008-12-26T15:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2967"},"modified":"2008-12-26T15:05:28","modified_gmt":"2008-12-26T15:05:28","slug":"cartledge-on-alexander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2967","title":{"rendered":"Cartledge on Alexander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"283\" src=\"http:\/\/images.barnesandnoble.com\/images\/14970000\/14973092.JPG\" height=\"433\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I just picked up the eminently readable biography, \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1400079195?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=zenpundit-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1400079195\"><strong><em>Alexander the Great<\/em><\/strong><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=zenpundit-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1400079195\" height=\"1\" style=\"margin: 0px; border: medium none\" \/>\u00a0by Cambridge professor and classical historian <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.classics.cam.ac.uk\/faculty\/staff-bios\/academic-research-staff\/paul_cartledge\/\">Paul Cartledge <\/a><\/strong>. I&#8217;ve previously enjoyed Cartledge on his explanations of Spartan culture and history and the first few chapters of <strong><em>Alexander<\/em><\/strong> are just as clear and enjoyable.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Addendum<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2664\" title=\"Permanent Link: \">&#8220;Go, tell the Spartans!&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just picked up the eminently readable biography, \u00a0Alexander the Great\u00a0by Cambridge professor and classical historian Paul Cartledge . I&#8217;ve previously enjoyed Cartledge on his explanations of Spartan culture and history and the first few chapters of Alexander are just as clear and enjoyable. Addendum: &#8220;Go, tell the Spartans!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[414,420,133,165,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancient-history","category-authors","category-book","category-historians","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}