At eighteen Alexander had conquered mainland Greece, was crowned King of Macedon
ia at twenty and by twenty-six he had made himself master of the once mighty Per
sian Empire. By the time of his death, aged only thirty-three, in 323BCE he was
ruler of the known world and was being worshipped as a god by the Greeks, both a
t Babylon, where he died, and further west, among the Greek cities of the Asiati
c seaboard. The fruit of a lifetime's scholarship and meticulous research, this
is an outstanding biography of one of the most remarkable rulers in history.
