In 336 BC Alexander the Great became king of Macedon. During his twelve year reign he conquered the Achaemenid Persian Empire, the largest to have yet existed,

In the first authoritative biography of Alexander the Great written for a general audience in a generation, classicist and historian Philip Freeman tells the re

A classic account of Alexander the Great's conquest and its impact on the conquered—now in English for the first time This is the first publication in English

Alexander the Great is the towering hero of the classical world: a fearless general, the conqueror of the Persians, and the visionary ruler of a vast empire. In

Sheds light on the concept of late antiquity and the events of its time, showing that this was in fact a period of great transformation