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Alexander the Great
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Alexander the Great Paperback - 2004

by Robin Lane Fox

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Fox's accessible and erudite life of Alexander searches through the mass of conflicting evidence and legend to focus on the living actuality of the man and his experience.

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Penguin, 2004-10-05. Paperback. Used:Good.
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  • Title Alexander the Great
  • Author Robin Lane Fox
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used:Good
  • Pages 592
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date 2004-10-05
  • Features Bibliography, Maps, Movie/TV Tie-In
  • Bookseller's Inventory # DADAX0143035134
  • ISBN 9780143035138 / 0143035134
  • Weight 1.06 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.46 x 5.48 x 1.15 in (21.49 x 13.92 x 2.92 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Cultural Region: Greece
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

Summary

Tough, resolute, fearless. Alexander was a born warrior and a ruler of passionate ambition who understood the intense adventure of conquest and of the unknown. When he died in 323 B.C.E. at age thirty-two, his vast empire comprised more than two million square miles, spanning from Greece to India. His achievements were unparalleled—he had excelled as leader to his men, founded eighteen new cities, and stamped the face of Greek culture on the ancient East. the myth he created is as potent today as it was in the ancient world.

Robin Lane Fox's superb account searches through the mass of conflicting evidence and legend to focus on Alexander as a man of his own time. Combining historical scholarship and acute psychological insight, it brings this colossal figure vividly to life.

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Two thousand three hundred yean ago, in the autumn of 336 B.C., the king of the Macedonians was celebrating another royal wedding.

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Media reviews

"A magnificent, compelling epic...He has honored him splendidly." —Sunday Telegraph



"Dramatic, rich in details about little things as well as great...filled with persistent probing into human psychology.... Throughout there is an air of excitement and tension." —The New York Times Book Review



"Fox writes on the heroic scale.... [He] has covered the ground with immense thoroughness." —The Economist

About the author

Robin Fox is a respected ancient historian and scholar. An emeritus fellow and tutor of New College, Oxford, and a former reader in ancient history at Oxford University, Fox has taught Greek and Latin literature, Greek and Roman history, and early Islamic history. His literary honors include the Heinemann Award, the Duff Cooper Prize, and the James Tait Black Award.