From award-winning historian Robin Lane Fox,\u00a0Alexander the Great\u00a0<\/i>searches through the mass of conflicting evidence and legend to focus on Alexander as a man of his own time.<\/p>\n
Tough, resolute, fearless, Alexander was a born warrior and ruler of passionate ambition who understood the intense adventure of conquest and 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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Combining historical scholarship and acute psychological insight,\u00a0Alexander the Great<\/i>\u00a0brings this colossal figure vividly to life.<\/p>\n
‘So enjoyable and well-written … Fox’s book became my main guide through Alexander’s amazing story’
\nOliver Stone, director of\u00a0Alexander<\/i><\/p>\n
‘I do not know which to admire most, his vast erudition or his imaginative grasp of so remote and complicated a period and such a complex personality’
\nCyril Connolly,\u00a0Sunday Times<\/i><\/p>\n
‘An achievement of Alexandrian proportions’
\nNew Statesman<\/i><\/p>\n
Robin Lane Fox\u00a0was the main historical advisor to Oliver Stone on his film\u00a0Alexander<\/i>, and took part in many of its most dramatic re-enactments. His books include\u00a0The Classical World: An Epic History of Greece and Rome<\/i>,\u00a0The Unauthorised Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible<\/i>,\u00a0Travelling Heroes: Greeks and their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Pagans and Christians in the Mediterranean World from the Second Century AD to the Conversion of Constantine.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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