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The Life of Alexander the Great

By Plutarch
Introduction by Victor Davis Hanson
Edited by Arthur Hugh Clough
Translated by John Dryden

By Plutarch
Introduction by Victor Davis Hanson
Edited by Arthur Hugh Clough
Translated by John Dryden

By Plutarch
Introduction by Victor Davis Hanson
Edited by Arthur Hugh Clough
Translated by John Dryden

By Plutarch
Introduction by Victor Davis Hanson
Edited by Arthur Hugh Clough
Translated by John Dryden

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    About The Life of Alexander the Great

    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.”

    The Life of Alexander the Great 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 Plutarch’s Lives, is a riveting tale of honor, power, scandal, and bravery written by the most eminent biographer of the ancient world.

    About The Life of Alexander the Great

    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.”

    The Life of Alexander the Great 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 Plutarch’s Lives, is a riveting tale of honor, power, scandal, and bravery written by the most eminent biographer of the ancient world.

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    About Plutarch

    Plutarch (c.50-c.120 AD) was a writer and thinker born into a wealthy, established family of Chaeronea in central Greece. He received the best possible education in rhetoric and philosophy, and traveled to Asia Minor and Egypt. Later, a series of… More about Plutarch

    About Plutarch

    Plutarch (c.50-c.120 AD) was a writer and thinker born into a wealthy, established family of Chaeronea in central Greece. He received the best possible education in rhetoric and philosophy, and traveled to Asia Minor and Egypt. Later, a series of… More about Plutarch

    Product Details

    Category: Historical Figure Biographies & Memoirs | Nonfiction Classics | Ancient World History

    Paperback | $12.00
    Published by Modern Library
    Apr 13, 2004 | 96 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780812971330

    Category: Historical Figure Biographies & Memoirs | Nonfiction Classics | Ancient World History

    Ebook | $7.99
    Published by Modern Library
    Apr 13, 2004 | 96 Pages | ISBN 9781588363473
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