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    Alexander the Great: His Life and His Mysterious Death
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    Alexander the Great: His Life and His Mysterious Death
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    Alexander the Great: His Life and His Mysterious Death

    Written by Anthony Everitt

    Narrated by John Lee

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    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.

    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 33. 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 chivalry, he was a star of Renaissance paintings, and by the early 20th century he'd even come to resemble an English gentleman. But who was he in his own time?

    In Alexander the Great, Anthony Everitt judges Alexander’s life against the criteria of his own age and considers all his contradictions. We meet the Macedonian prince who was naturally inquisitive and fascinated by science and exploration, as well as the man who enjoyed the arts and used Homer’s great epic, the Iliad, as a bible. As his empire grew, Alexander exhibited respect for the traditions of his new subjects and careful judgment in administering rule over his vast territory. But his career also had a dark side. An inveterate conqueror who in his short life built the largest empire up to that point in history, Alexander glorified war and was known to commit acts of remarkable cruelty.

    As debate continues about the meaning of his life, Alexander's death remains a mystery. Did he die of natural causes — felled by a fever — or did his marshals, angered by his tyrannical behavior, kill him? An explanation of his death can lie only in what we know of his life, and Everitt ventures to solve that puzzle, offering an ending to Alexander’s story that has eluded so many for so long.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateAug 27, 2019
    ISBN9780593147481
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    Alexander the Great: His Life and His Mysterious Death
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    Anthony Everitt

    Anthony Everitt is a former visiting professor in the visual and performing arts at Nottingham Trent University and previously served as secretary general of the Arts Council of Great Britain. He has written extensively on European culture and history, and is the author of Cicero, Augustus, Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome, The Rise of Rome, and The Rise of Athens. Everitt lives near Colchester, England's first recorded town, founded by the Romans.

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    • 5/5
      The information is familiar to anyone who has read about Alexander before. I guess it all comes from the same source. That being said it is clearly put and logical explanations and extrapolations are made where needed.
    • 5/5
      Another Anthony Everitt great. And John Lee was phenomenal as usual.