![]() ![]() 'This is not just a novel: it's also the best imagining we are ever likely to have of a man who tore up history. Shortlisted for the 1970 Lost Booker Prize 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. His love for the youth Hephaistion taught him trust, while Aristotle's tutoring provoked his mind and Homer's Iliad fuelled his aspirations. ![]() 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. In the first novel of her stunning trilogy, Mary Renault vividly imagines the life of Alexander the Great, the charismatic leader whose drive and ambition created a legend.Īlexander's beauty, strength and defiance were apparent from birth, but his boyhood honed those gifts into the makings of a king. 'The Alexandriad is one of the twentieth century's most unexpectedly original works of art' GORE VIDAL Lyrical, wise, compelling: the novels are a wonderful imaginative feat' SARAH WATERS 'The Alexander Trilogy contains some of Renault's finest writing. ![]()
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