James Romm is James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics at Bard College. He has written two books on the ancient Greek world, The Edges of the Earth in Ancient Thought and Herodotus.
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When Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-two, his empire stretched from the Adriatic Sea in the west all the way to modern-day India in the east. In an unusual compromise, his two heirs—a mentally damaged half brother, Philip III, and an i... SEE MORE