Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault

Fire from Heaven
Mary Renault
Page: 384
Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
ISBN: 9780375726828
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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“Written with her usual vigor and imagination...Mary Renault has a great talent.”–The New York Times Book Review  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 ...

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