Kirjahaku

ââ?¬Ë?Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written with panache, it summons up a vanished worldââ?¬â?¢ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

‘Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written with panache, it summons up a vanished world’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH This is an astonishing new account of Alexander the Great – one of the most important figures of the ancient world, whose earlier years have until now been a mystery. Alexander the Great’s story often reads like fiction: son to a snake-loving mother and a battle-scarred father; tutored by Aristotle; a youth from the periphery of the Greek world who took part in his first campaign aged sixteen, becoming king of Macedon at twenty and king of Asia by twenty-five; leading his armies into battle like a Homeric figure. Each generation has peered through the frosted glass of history and come to their own conclusion about Alexander, be it enlightened ruler, military genius, megalomaniac, drunkard or despot. Yet the first two decades of his life have until now been a mystery – a matter of legend and myth. This extraordinary history draws on new discoveries in archaeology to tell the early story of Alexander and his rise – including detail on the tempestuous relationship between Alexander’s parents, Philip and the Molossian princess Olympias, his education by Aristotle and the strict military training which would serve him so well in later years. And more than ever, it emerges, the story of Alexander’s reign confronts us with difficult questions that are still relevant today – of the relationship between East and West, the legacy of colonialism and the impacts of authoritarian rule. Drawing together startling modern archaeological discoveries, this book brings Alexander’s ancient world back into focus. With each fragment of this shattered past, excavated by shovel, pick and trowel, a new history is being written. The forgotten story of young Alexander is being unearthed.

Velikij zavoevatel, prosveschennyj pravitel ili bezumets s maniej velichija?Aleksandr Makedonskij - odna iz samykh protivorechivykh figur v mirovoj istorii. Kazhdoe pokolenie videlo svoego Aleksandra. O ego junosti do nedavnego vremeni i vovse bylo izvestno ochen malo. No poslednie arkheologicheskie nakhodki pozvoljajut nam po-novomu vzgljanut na stanovlenie ego lichnosti.Vyrosshij sredi providtsev i zhretsov, s rozhdenija okruzhennyj predznamenovanijami, Aleksandr vsegda znal, chto emu ugotovana neobyknovennaja sudba. Uchitelja i nastavniki pomogli sformirovat ego telo i razum. Aristotel delilsja s nim svoej mudrostju.V etoj zakhvatyvajuschej knige rasskazyvaetsja o tom, kak nachinalsja put, kotoryj privel Aleksandra na vershinu mira.Perevodchik: Chumicheva Olga