In 336 b.c. Philip of Macedonia was assassinated and his twenty-year-old son, Alexander, inherited his kingdom. Immediately quelling rebellion, Alexander extended his father’s empire through-out the Middle East and into parts of Asia, fulfilling the soothsayer Aristander’s prediction that the new king “should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labour and sweat to describe and celebrate him.” <br><br><b>The Life of Alexander the Great</b> is one of the first surviving attempts to memorialize the achievements of this legendary king, remembered today as the greatest military genius of all time. This exclusive Modern Library edition, excerpted from <b>Plutarch’s Lives</b>, is a riveting tale of honor, power, scandal, and bravery written by the most eminent biographer of the ancient world.
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Offers a collection of ten biographies that spans the period from the start of the fourth century BC to the early third, and covers some of the most important figures in Greek history, such as the orator Demosthenes and Alexander the Great, as well as...
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This volume explores the images of Alexander the Great during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, how they came about and why they were so popular.
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<p><em>Plutarch''s Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans</em>, commonly called<em> Parallel Lives</em> or <em>Plutarch''s Lives</em>, is a series of 48 biographies of famous men, arranged in...
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