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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Everitt, Anthony, author.     Subjects     Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C.     Generals -- Greece -- Biography.     Greece -- History -- Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C.     Greece -- Kings and rulers -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Everitt, Anthony, author.       by title:      Alexander the Great ...         MARC Display

Alexander the Great : his life and his mysterious death / Anthony Everitt. by Everitt, Anthony, author. New York : Random House, [2019] Subjects Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C.   Generals -- Greece -- Biography.   Greece -- History -- Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C.   Greece -- Kings and rulers -- Biography. ISBN:  9780425286524 (hardcover) : 0425286525 (hardcover) : Description:  xviii, 464 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm Edition:  First edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  "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 portrait. More than two millennia have passed, but Alexander the Great is still a household name. His life was an adventure story and took him to every corner of the ancient world. His memory and glamour persist, and his early death at thirty-three has kept him evergreen in our imaginations with a legacy that meant something different to every age: in the Middle Ages he became an exemplar of knightly chivalry, he was a star of Renaissance paintings, and by the early twentieth century he even came 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, who enjoyed the arts and used the poet Homer's great epic, the Iliad, as a bible. As his empire grew, stretching from Greece and Macedonia to Ancient Egypt and Persia and all the way to India, Alexander exhibited respect for the traditions of his new subjects and careful judgment in administering rule over a vast territory. But his career also had a dark side. An inveterate conqueror, who in his short life built the largest empire to that point in history, Alexander glorified war and was known to commit acts of great cruelty. As debates continue about the meaning of his life, Alexander's death remains an unsolved 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"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Aiea Public Library Adult Biography B Alexander Ev Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii Kai Public Library Adult Biography B Alexander Ev Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 938.07092 Alexander Ev Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Biography B Alexander Ev Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kapolei Public Library Adult Biography B Alexander Ev Checked In Add Copy to MyList Lanai P/S Library Adult Biography B Alexander Ev Checked In Add Copy to MyList Makawao Public Library Adult Biography B Alexander Ev Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Nonfiction 938.07092 Alexander Ev Checked In Add Copy to MyList Pahoa P/S Library Adult Biography B Alexander Ev Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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