Alexander the Great

基本信息

Format Paperback | 576 pages

Dimensions 129 x 198 x 25mm | 417g

Publication date 04 Nov 2004

Publisher Penguin Books Ltd

Language English

Edition Statement UK ed.

Illustrations note w. 7 maps, 17 figs. on plates.

ISBN10 0141020768

ISBN13 9780141020761

頁面參數僅供參考，具體以實物為準

書籍簡介

獲獎歷史學家羅賓·萊恩·福克斯在《亞歷山大大帝》一書中，通過大量相互矛盾的證據和傳説，將亞歷山大作為一個屬於自己時代的人來研究。

堅韌、果斷、無所畏懼，亞歷山大是天生的戰士和充滿野心的統治者，他懂得征服和未知的激烈冒險。他死於公元前323年，時年32歲，他的龐大帝國包括超過200萬平方英里，從希臘到印度。

他的成就是無與倫比的——他出色地領導了他的部下，建立了十八個新城市，在古代東方烙上了希臘文化的印記。他創造的神話在今天和在古代一樣強大。

將歷史學識和敏鋭的心理學洞察力結合起來，亞歷山大大帝將這個巨大的人物栩栩如生地展現在世人面前。

From award-winning historian Robin Lane Fox, Alexander the Great searches through the mass of conflicting evidence and legend to focus on Alexander as a man of his own time.

Tough, resolute, fearless, Alexander was a born warrior and ruler of passionate ambition who understood the intense adventure of conquest and of the unknown. When he died in 323 BC aged thirty-two, his vast empire comprised more than two million square miles, spanning from Greece to India.

His achievements were unparalleled - he had excelled as leader to his men, founded eighteen new cities and stamped the face of Greek culture on the ancient East. The myth he created is as potent today as it was in the ancient world.

Combining historical scholarship and acute psychological insight, Alexander the Great brings this colossal figure vividly to life.

'So enjoyable and well-written ... Fox's book became my main guide through Alexander's amazing story'

Oliver Stone, director of Alexander

'I do not know which to admire most, his vast erudition or his imaginative grasp of so remote and complicated a period and such a complex personality'

Cyril Connolly, Sunday Times

作者簡介

Robin Lane Fox is Emeritus Fellow of New College, Oxford, and taught Ancient History at Oxford University from 1977 to 2014. He is the author of Pagans and Christians (1986), The Unauthorized Version (1992) and many books on classical history, all of which have been widely translated, including Alexander the Great (1973), The Classical World (2005), Travelling Heroes (2008) and Augustine: Conversions to Confessions (2015) which won the Wolfson Prize for History. He has been the gardening correspondent of the Financial Times since 1970.