| International Standard Book Number |
9781250285621 electronic book
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781250285614 hardcover
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| International Standard Book Number |
1250285615 hardcover
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| Personal Name |
Richardson, Edmund, 1982- author.
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| Title Statement |
Alexander : god, king, man / Edmund Richardson.
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| Edition Statement |
First U.S. edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
469 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
The watchers -- The battle -- The boy from the hills -- The throne -- The knot -- The engineer -- Blood -- The weight of a heart -- The city -- Man to god -- The choice -- Dust -- Earth and heaven -- The golden city -- Nemesis -- The great king -- World's end -- The kiss -- Legends -- The elephant -- Mutiny -- The desert -- The city of ashes -- Starlight -- Epilogue: The matter of the body.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"An enthralling new biography of Alexander the Great, written as an intimate, present portrait of the way his world saw him and the price he paid to become history's greatest military mind. Alexander the Great: a wide-eyed boy from the hills of Macedon who ruled most of the known world by his mid-twenties. For centuries, historians, refugees, poets, and explorers have told his story, and yet Alexander himself has remained a mystery. But over the last few years, a series of remarkable discoveries has changed everything. From the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea and the dust of Central Asian hillsides, the remains of Alexander's cities have emerged. The diaries of Babylonian astronomers who knew him have been deciphered. The tombs of his ancestors have been unearthed. Now, for the first time since antiquity, it is possible to tell a different story. The story of a young man whom almost no-one noticed, until the day he became king. A king who became a hero, a hero who became a living god, and a god who died broken-hearted in Babylon. Using cutting-edge research and a unique narrative approach, Alexander thrusts readers into Alexander the Great's world in ways which have never before been possible: to see the same stars wheeling overhead, feel the desert wind, and experience the full horror of battle. Alexander is a cinematic work of non-fiction, a revelatory retelling of one of the most famous and elusive stories in history"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Generals Greece Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Generals Greece.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Greece History Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Greece Kings and rulers Biography.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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