Alexander the Great: Conqueror of Worlds

di P. Agrawal (Autore)

P. Agrawal, 2025

Alexander the Great: Conqueror of Worlds is a sweeping, human-centered life of the Macedonian king who redrew the map of the ancient world before the age of thirty-three. Told in clear, simple narrative, it follows Alexander from the omens of his birth and the strict discipline of Pella to the shaping influence of Aristotle, capturing how a restless prince became a commander who never lost a battle. The book traces his first tests of leadership, the taming of Bucephalus, and his rise in the shadow of Philip II, before the shock of regicide thrusts him onto a fragile throne. From there, the story widens into an epic of conquest: the river charge at the Granicus, the turning of the tide at Issus, the ingenious siege of Tyre, and the world-changing decision at Gaugamela that shattered the Persian Empire. Beyond campaigns and maps, this biography portrays the mind and heart behind the armor. It explores Alexander's reverence in Egypt and the oracle at Siwa, his founding of Alexandria as a lighthouse of culture, and his vision to fuse Greece and the East through cities, laws, and marriages. The narrative brings close his bonds with companions like Hephaestion and the alliance of love with Roxana, revealing the personal loyalties that sustained an empire on the march. In India, the drama intensifies at the Hydaspes against King Porus, where valor, elephants, monsoon, and exhaustion meet the limits of human endurance—culminating in the army's refusal to go farther and Alexander's first concession to fate. The closing chapters turn inward as triumph gives way to strain: the brutal march through Gedrosia, the grief that follows Hephaestion's death, the tensions at Opis, and the final plans that never set sail from Babylon. Alexander dies young, but not before leaving a network of cities, a highway for ideas, and a blended Hellenistic world that outlives his fractured empire. Across twenty chapters, this book offers a complete, compassionate portrait of a strategist and dreamer—warrior, builder, and seeker—whose daring reshaped continents and whose legacy endures wherever knowledge crosses borders. It is a timeless story of ambition and horizon, of how a mortal reached toward the divine by pushing beyond every known edge.

• Autore: P. Agrawal
• Anno edizione: 2025
• Editore: P. Agrawal
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798232754921