William Woodthorpe Tarn

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Tarn, William Woodthorpe

Born Feb. 26, 1869, in London; died Nov. 7, 1957, in Inverness. British historian of classical antiquity.

Tarn’s chief works are concerned with the history of the Hellenistic Age.

WORKS

Amigonos Gonatas. Oxford, 1913.
Alexander the Great, vols. 1–2, Cambridge, 1948.
Octavian, Antony and Cleopatra. London, 1965. (In collaboration with M. P. Charlesworth.)
The Greeks in Bactria and India. Cambridge, 1966.
In Russian translation:
Ellinisticheskaia tsivilizatsiia. Moscow, 1949.

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Certainly, it is impossible to accept what William Woodthorpe Tarn called Alexander's promotion of "The Brotherhood of Man," but it does seem possible to find in the ancient sources evidence for a considered, if gradually developed, policy on Alexander's part of working to create a new kind of combined society by integrating different ethnicities into social interactions and, above all, ruling a complicated world.

By the Spear: Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the Rise and Fall of the Macedonian Empire