Mesmeric beauty, consuming desires, an insatiable hunger. Then premature death. This is the story of a boy, born to a great king - Philip of Macedon and his sensuous queen, Olympias. It tells of the stern discipline of Philip and the wild passions of Olympias and how, together, they formed Alexander, a young man of immense, unfathomable potential, capable of subjugating the known world to his power and thought of by his contemporaries as a god.
Alexander's swift ascent to manhood, as a protege of Aristotle and close friend of Ptolemy and Hephiaston and the start of his great adventure to conquer the civilised world is recounted in this awe-inspiring novel.
This is a wonderful evocation of the far-off and fascinating civilisation of ancient Greece, revealed in vibrant tones and scholarly detail.
