Book Description
In 336 b.c. Philip of
Macedonia was assassinated and his twenty-year-old son, Alexander,
inherited his kingdom. Immediately quelling rebellion, Alexander
extended his father's empire throughout the Middle East and into
parts of Asia, fulfilling the soothsayer Aristander's prediction
that the new king "should perform acts so important and glorious as
would make the poets and musicians of future ages labour and sweat
to describe and celebrate him."
The Life of Alexander the Great is one of the first surviving
attempts to memorialize the achievements of this legendary king,
remembered today as the greatest military genius of all time. This
exclusive Modern Library edition, excerpted from Plutarch's Lives,
is a tale of honor, power, scandal, and bravery written by the most
eminent biographer of the ancient world.
About Author
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON has written extensively on both ancient Greek
and military history; his ?fteen books include The Western Way of
War and Between War and Peace. He is a senior fellow at the Hoover
Institution, Stanford University, and a professor of classics at
California State University, Fresno.
Book Dimension :
length: (cm)18 width:(cm)13.4
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