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Alexander The Great 1
Open Road Media
September 2013
On Sale: September 10, 2013
Featuring: Queen Olympias; King Philip; Alexander
385 pages
ISBN: 1480432873
EAN: 9781480432871
Kindle: B00DCGJ6Z4
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
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Alexanderβs 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 sonβs loyalty, teaching Alexander politics and vengeance from the cradle. His love for the youth Hephaistion taught him trust, while Aristotleβs tutoring provoked his mind and Homerβs Iliad fueled his aspirations. Killing his first man in battle at the age of twelve, he became regent at sixteen and commander of Macedonβs cavalry at eighteen, so that by the time his father was murdered, Alexanderβs skills had grown to match his fiery ambition.
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