Alexander The Great

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From award-winning historian Robin Lane Fox Alexander the Great" searches through the mass of conflicting evidence & legend to focus on Alexander as a man of his own time. Tough resolute fearless Alexander was a born warrior & ruler of passionate ambition who understood the intense adventure of conquest & of the unknown. When he died in 323 BC aged 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 & 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. Combining historical scholarship & acute psychological insight " Alexander the Great" brings this colossal figure vividly to life. " So enjoyable & well-written... Foxs book became my main guide through Alexanders amazing story". (Oliver Stone director of " Alexander"). "I do not know which to admire most his vast erudition or his imaginative grasp of so remote & complicated a period & such a complex personality". (Cyril Connolly " Sunday Times"). " An achievement of Alexandrian proportions". (" New Statesman"). Robin Lane Fox was the main historical advisor to Oliver Stone on his film " Alexander" & took part in many of its most dramatic re-enactments. His books include " The Classical World: An Epic History of Greece & Rome" " The Unauthorised Version: Truth & Fiction in the Bible" " Travelling Heroes: Greeks & their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer" & " Pagans & Christians in the Mediterranean World from the Second Century AD to the Conversion of Constantine"."