Alexander the Great: His Life and Mysterious Death (2019)
Anthony Everitt
What can we learn from the stunning rise and mysterious death of the ancient world's greatest conqueror? An acclaimed biographer reconstructs the life of Alexander the Great in this magisterial revisionist portrait.
"Reads as easily as a novel . . . Nearly unparalleled insight into the period and the man make this a story for everyone."—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Reads as easily as a novel . . . Nearly unparalleled insight into the period and the man make this a story for everyone."—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
More than two millennia have passed since Alexander the Great built an empire that stretched to every corner of the ancient world, from the backwater kingdom of Macedonia to the Hellenic world, Persia, and ultimately to India—all before his untimely death at age thirty-three. Alexander believed that his empire would stop only when he reached the Pacific Ocean. But stories of both real and legendary events from his life have kept him evergreen in our imaginations with a legacy that has meant something different to every era: in the Middle Ages he became an exemplar of knightly...
年:
2019
出版商:
Random House Publishing Group
語言:
english
文件:
EPUB, 19.23 MB
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english, 2019
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