Picador- 9780330475549
At eighteen Alexander had conquered mainland Greece, was crowned King of Macedonia at twenty and by twenty-six he had made himself master of the once mighty Persian Empire. By the time of his death, aged only thirty-three, in 323BCE he was ruler of the known world and was being worshipped as a god by the Greeks, both at Babylon, where he died, and further west, among the Greek cities of the Asiatic seaboard. The fruit of a lifetime’s scholarship and meticulous research, this is an outstanding biography of one of the most remarkable rulers in history.
A hugely impressive portrait of a towering but enigmatic figure Saul David, Sunday Telegraph
A revealing, often enthralling search . . . [a] restless, exhilarating bookObserver
Fascinating . . . blends all the pleasures of Hollywood epic with those of a subtle and deeply intriguing detective tale Tom Holland, author of Rubicon
Alexander the Great provides an endless fount both of amazement and of speculation. This gripping book examines the legends as well as the life. Most interestingly, it invites the reader to participate in the difficult task of separating the fact from the fiction Norman Davies
At eighteen Alexander had conquered mainland Greece, was crowned King of Macedonia at twenty and by twenty-six he had made himself master of the once mighty Persian Empire. By the time of his death, aged only thirty-three, in 323BCE he was ruler of the known world and was being worshipped as a god by the Greeks, both at Babylon, where he died, and further west, among the Greek cities of the Asiatic seaboard. The fruit of a lifetime’s scholarship and meticulous research, this is an outstanding biography of one of the most remarkable rulers in history.
A hugely impressive portrait of a towering but enigmatic figure Saul David, Sunday Telegraph
A revealing, often enthralling search . . . [a] restless, exhilarating bookObserver
Fascinating . . . blends all the pleasures of Hollywood epic with those of a subtle and deeply intriguing detective tale Tom Holland, author of Rubicon
Alexander the Great provides an endless fount both of amazement and of speculation. This gripping book examines the legends as well as the life. Most interestingly, it invites the reader to participate in the difficult task of separating the fact from the fiction Norman Davies
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Paul Cartledge (Londres, 1947) es historiador, experto en historia griega, con especial interés en Atenas y Esparta. Comenzó su carrera académica en el Trinity College de Dublín y en la Universidad de Warwick, pero ha sido sobre todo profesor en la Universidad de Cambridge, donde ha ocupado la cátedra A. G. Leventis de Cultura Griega. Además de Democracia: Una historia, es autor de obras como Alejandro Magno; Termópilas: La batalla que cambió el mundo; Los espartanos o Los griegos.
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