Fire from Heaven A Novel of Alexander the Great

Name: Fire from Heaven A Novel of Alexander the Great
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ISBN: 9780375726828

ISBN-10: 0375726829

ISBN-13: 9780375726828

Edition: 2nd 2002

Authors: Mary Renault

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“Written with her usual vigor and imagination...Mary Renault has a great talent.”–The New York Times Book Review Alexander’s beauty, strength, and defiance were apparent from birth, but his boyhood honed those gifts into the makings of a king. His mother, Olympias, and his father, King Philip of Macedon, fought each other for their son’s loyalty, teaching Alexander politics and vengeance from the cradle. His love for the youth Hephaistion taught him trust, while Aristotle’s tutoring provoked his mind and Homer’s Iliad fueled his aspirations. Killing his first man in battle at the age of twelve, he became regent at sixteen and commander of Macedon’s cavalry at eighteen, so that by the time…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/11/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.16" wide x 8.00" long x 0.82" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English