Alexander the Great
Subtitle: The Brief Life and Towering Exploits of History's Greatest Conqueror--As Told By His Original Biographers
Contributors: Tania Gergel (Editor); Michael Wood (Introduction)
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Published: October 26, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780142001400
First sentence: The texts in this collection are drawn from three ancient biographies of Alexander of Macedonia - Alexander 'the Great' - who died in Babylon in 323 BC at the age of just thirty-two having conquered half of the known world.