NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. A fine copy of this wonderful leatherbound edition of this biography of Alexander the Great by Robin Lane Fox. Book is like new clean and crisp with no writing or names. Three raised spine bands, orange satin endpapers and sewn-in satin bookmark. Bound in blue leather stamped in gold with gilt stained page ends. His books include The Classical World: An Epic History of Greece and Rome, The Unauthorised Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible, Travelling Heroes: Greeks and their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer and Pagans and Christians in the Mediterranean World from the Second Century AD to the Conversion of Constantine.Edition: First Thus Book Condition: Collectible - Like New Publisher: The Easton Press. Fox's book became my main guide through Alexander's 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 and complicated a period and 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, and took part in many of its most dramatic re-enactments.
Combining historical scholarship and acute psychological insight, Alexander the Great brings this colossal figure vividly to life.
The myth he created is as potent today as it was in the ancient world. 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. When he died in 323 BC aged thirty-two, his vast empire comprised more than two million square miles, spanning from Greece to India. Tough, resolute, fearless, Alexander was a born warrior and ruler of passionate ambition who understood the intense adventure of conquest and of the unknown. From award-winning historian Robin Lane Fox, Alexander the Great searches through the mass of conflicting evidence and legend to focus on Alexander as a man of his own time.
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