Book description
Who could have been born to conquer the world other than a god?
Mesmeric beauty, consuming desires, an insatiable hunger. Then
premature death. This is the story of a boy, born to a great king -
Philip of Macedon - and his sensuous queen, Olympias. It tells of the
stern discipline of Philip and the wild passions of Olympias, and how,
together, they formed Alexander, a young man of immense, unfathomable
potential, capable of subjugating the known world to his power, and
thought of by his contemporaries as a god.
Alexander's swift ascent to manhood, as a protege of Aristotle and
close friend of Ptolemy and Hephiaston, and the start of his great
adventure to conquer the civilised world is recounted in this
awe-inspiring novel.
This is a wonderful evocation of the far-off and fascinating
civilisation of ancient Greece, revealed in vibrant tones and scholarly
detail. Valerio Massimo Manfredi is professor of classical archaeology
at Luigi Bocconi University in Milan. He has published nine works of
fiction, including the bestselling Spartan
and The Last Legion
. The Alexander
trilogy has been translated into 24 languages in 38 countries. He has
written and hosted documentaries on the ancient world, and has written
screenplays for cinema and television.
