Alexander the Great - The Hunt for a New Past

His fame has endured for well over two millennia, mythologized by Eastern and Western cultures alike. He is remembered as the conqueror who, by the time he was thirty, had taken his victorious army to the limits of the inhabited world and ruled an empire that stretched from the Mediterranean to the Hindu Kush. But who was Alexander? In this original and provocative biography Paul Cartledge explores his multiple identities and astonishing achievements in the hunt for a new vision of the warrior king.