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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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Historical
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 his father was murdered, Alexander’s skills had grown
to match his fiery ambition.
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