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Tough, resolute, fearless, Alexander was a born warrior and ruler of passionate ambition who understood the intense adventure of conquest and of the unknown. When he died in 323 BC aged thirty-two, his vast empire comprised more than two million square miles, spanning from Greece to India. His achievements were unparalleled - he had excelled as leader to his men, founded eighteen new cities and stamped the face of Greek culture on the ancient East. The myth he created is as potent today as it was in the ancient world. Robin Lane Fox's superb account searches through the mass of conflicting evidence and legend to focus on Alexander as a man of his own time. Combining historical scholarship and acute psychological insight, it brings this colossal figure vividly to life.… (más)
timspalding: Robin Lane Fox and Peter Green work well together—very different, but equally intelligent approaches to the same topic. If you're interested enough to read two books on Alexander, read both. Then, I suspect, you'll want to read at least ten more.
Monumental y excepcionalmente bien documentada, esta biografía de Alejandro Magno se sumerge en el misterio de uno de los más extraordinarios personajes de la historia, feroz conquistador de Asia y discípulo de Aristóteles, que terminó por sentar, a través de sus gestas, las bases mismas del helenismo.
Robin Lane Fox realiza un exhaustivo estudio de la vida de Alejandro Magno, sus conquistas y el entorno político, social y religioso en el que se movió. Como cualquier obra de su extensión (y como cualquier vida), tiene altibajos en su calidad e interés, pero no son muchos. El autor fue el principal asesor histórico de la película de Oliver Stone; tal vez tenga alguna responsabilidad en el peinado de Colin Farrell. ( )
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When Alexander's sarcophagus was brought from the shrine, Augustus gazed at the body, then laid a crown of gold on its glass case and scattered some flowers to pay his respects. When they asked if he would like to see Ptolemy too, 'I wished to see a king,' he replied. 'I di not wish to see corpses.' Suetonious, Life of Augustus, 18.1
As for the exact thoughts in Alexander's mind, I am neither able nor concerned to guess them, but this I think I can state, that nothing common or mean would have been his intention; he would not have remained content with any of his conquests not even if he had added the British Isles to Europe; he would always have searched beyond for something unknown, and if there had been no other competition, he would have competed against himself. Arrian (AD150) Alexander's Expedition, 7l1
Fluellen I think it is in Macedon where Alexander is porn. I tell you, captain, if you look in the maps of the 'orld, I warrant you shall find, in the comparisons between Macedon and Monmouth, that the situations, look you, is both alike. there is a river in Macedon, and there is also moreover a river at Monmouth: it is called Wye at Monmouth; but it is out of my prains what is the name of the other river; but 'tis all one, 'tis alike as my fingers is to my fingers, and there is salmons in both. Henry V, IV, vii
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Two thousand three hundred years ago, in the autumn of 336BC, the king of the Macedonians was celebrating another royal wedding.
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Only a lover of Homer can sense what the mood must have been.
Tough, resolute, fearless, Alexander was a born warrior and ruler of passionate ambition who understood the intense adventure of conquest and of the unknown. When he died in 323 BC aged thirty-two, his vast empire comprised more than two million square miles, spanning from Greece to India. His achievements were unparalleled - he had excelled as leader to his men, founded eighteen new cities and stamped the face of Greek culture on the ancient East. The myth he created is as potent today as it was in the ancient world. Robin Lane Fox's superb account searches through the mass of conflicting evidence and legend to focus on Alexander as a man of his own time. Combining historical scholarship and acute psychological insight, it brings this colossal figure vividly to life.
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