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Alexander the Great por Robin Lane Fox
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Alexander the Great (original 1973; edição 2004)

por Robin Lane Fox

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Tough, resolute, fearless, Alexander was a born warrior and ruler of passionate ambition who understood the intense adventure of conquest and of the unknown. When he died in 323 BC aged thirty-two, his vast empire comprised more than two million square miles, spanning from Greece to India. His achievements were unparalleled - he had excelled as leader to his men, founded eighteen new cities and stamped the face of Greek culture on the ancient East. The myth he created is as potent today as it was in the ancient world. Robin Lane Fox's superb account searches through the mass of conflicting evidence and legend to focus on Alexander as a man of his own time. Combining historical scholarship and acute psychological insight, it brings this colossal figure vividly to life.… (mais)
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Título:Alexander the Great
Autores:Robin Lane Fox
Informação:Penguin (2004), Edition: Film Tie-in with Oliver Stone's "ALEXANDER" Ed, Paperback, 576 pages
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Etiquetas:Folio Society, History, Ancient Greece, Biography

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    Alexander of Macedon 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography por Peter Green (timspalding)
    timspalding: Robin Lane Fox and Peter Green work well together—very different, but equally intelligent approaches to the same topic. If you're interested enough to read two books on Alexander, read both. Then, I suspect, you'll want to read at least ten more.
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Once upon a time, my younger brother (aged 12) needed to read a biography for school. My other brother (17) and I (18) took it upon ourselves to drive down to a bookstore and try to find a suitable choice.

A 500-page scholarly dissection of Alexander the Great was our idea of "suitable."

Our mother intervened at that point and found something that our brother had a hope of finishing.

Fox's book is, indeed, scholarly -- sometimes to the point of tedium. Since first-hand accounts of Alexander's exploits are scarce, Fox spends a lot of time backtracking to explain the many alternative possibilities that could have happened. This is all very academically important, but it doesn't help the reader grasp the linear progression of events. On the other hand, Fox does an excellent job of describing the battles and Alexander's tactics therein. His scholarship is hard to knock. At times, he does feel like an apologist for some of Alexander's excesses, but he ultimately presents a balanced view of Alexander-the-human. It's not written vividly enough for a casual recommendation, but it's an obvious read if you're interested in the classical world. ( )
  proustbot | Jun 19, 2023 |
Monumental y excepcionalmente bien documentada, esta biografía de Alejandro Magno se sumerge en el misterio de uno de los más extraordinarios personajes de la historia, feroz conquistador de Asia y discípulo de Aristóteles, que terminó por sentar, a través de sus gestas, las bases mismas del helenismo.
  Natt90 | Dec 9, 2022 |
I honestly LOVED reading this book. Alexander the Great has always been a point of interest for me, and this book only made that interest grow. Robin Lane Fox did a fantastic job in writing this book and working through the mountain of information - legend and otherwise - that surrounds Alexander the Great. I didn’t feel like I could really give this 5/5 stars, though, due to the fact that my copy is the 1997 Folio Society edition. Don’t get me wrong: I love older books - the smell, seeing the author work through what information they have, and so forth. However, I feel like I would need to read an updated version to see if I’d give this book a 5/5 stars. ( )
  historybookreads | Jul 26, 2021 |
The detail in this was dry and not very engaging. Perhaps if I had a better working knowledge of Alexander, it would have been better, but this didn't leave me wanting to learn more of this man who was such a prodigy. ( )
  Jen.ODriscoll.Lemon | Jan 23, 2016 |
The detail in this was dry and not very engaging. Perhaps if I had a better working knowledge of Alexander, it would have been better, but this didn't leave me wanting to learn more of this man who was such a prodigy. ( )
  Jen.ODriscoll.Lemon | Jan 23, 2016 |
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When Alexander's sarcophagus was brought from the shrine, Augustus gazed at the body, then laid a crown of gold on its glass case and scattered some flowers to pay his respects. When they asked if he would like to see Ptolemy too, 'I wished to see a king,' he replied. 'I di not wish to see corpses.'
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As for the exact thoughts in Alexander's mind, I am neither able nor concerned to guess them, but this I think I can state, that nothing common or mean would have been his intention; he would not have remained content with any of his conquests not even if he had added the British Isles to Europe; he would always have searched beyond for something unknown, and if there had been no other competition, he would have competed against himself.
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I think it is in Macedon where Alexander is porn. I tell you, captain, if you look in the maps of the 'orld, I warrant you shall find, in the comparisons between Macedon and Monmouth, that the situations, look you, is both alike. there is a river in Macedon, and there is also moreover a river at Monmouth: it is called Wye at Monmouth; but it is out of my prains what is the name of the other river; but 'tis all one, 'tis alike as my fingers is to my fingers, and there is salmons in both.
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Tough, resolute, fearless, Alexander was a born warrior and ruler of passionate ambition who understood the intense adventure of conquest and of the unknown. When he died in 323 BC aged thirty-two, his vast empire comprised more than two million square miles, spanning from Greece to India. His achievements were unparalleled - he had excelled as leader to his men, founded eighteen new cities and stamped the face of Greek culture on the ancient East. The myth he created is as potent today as it was in the ancient world. Robin Lane Fox's superb account searches through the mass of conflicting evidence and legend to focus on Alexander as a man of his own time. Combining historical scholarship and acute psychological insight, it brings this colossal figure vividly to life.

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