The Young Alexander: Making Of Alexander Great Alex Rowson William Collins Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

‘Popular History At Its Very Best Thought-Provoking And Accessible Underpinned By Serious Research Written With Panache It Summons Up A Vanished World’ Sunday Telegraph This Is An Astonishing New Account Of Alexander The Great – One Most Important Figures Ancient World Whose Earlier Years Have Until Now Been Mystery Great’s Story Often Reads Like Fiction: Son To Snake-Loving Mother Battle-Scarred Father Tutored Aristotle Youth From Periphery Greek Who Took Part In His First Campaign Aged Sixteen Becoming King Macedon Twenty Asia Twenty-Five Leading Armies Into Battle Homeric Figure Each Generation Has Peered Through Frosted Glass Come Their Own Conclusion About Be Enlightened Ruler Military Genius Megalomaniac Drunkard Or Despot Yet Two Decades Life Matter Legend Myth Extraordinary Draws On Discoveries Archaeology Tell Early Rise Including Detail Tempestuous Relationship Between Alexander’s Parents Philip Molossian Princess Olympias Education Strict Training Which Would Serve Him So Well Later More Than Ever Emerges Reign Confronts Us Difficult Questions That Are Still Relevant Today East West Legacy Colonialism Impacts Authoritarian Rule Drawing Together Startling Modern Archaeological Book Brings Back Focus Fragment Shattered Past Excavated Shovel Pick Trowel Being Forgotten Young Unearthed Σελίδες: 512 Διαστάσεις: 12 9X12 9Cm