![]() ![]() At the banks of the last river of the Punjab, we are told, he wept because he had no more lands to conquer. ![]() He defeated the Persians in every battle and conquered their territory to the very edge of the known world. Physically beautiful, a fine warrior, educated by Aristotle, born to a royal court, he chose to risk his inheritance confronting the greatest empire in Europe and Asia. His life has the flavour of a fairy story, in part because it inspired so many. But the more we produce about Alexander the less we seem to understand him.įor nearly two and a half thousand years, Alexander represented a central vision of mankind. Now, alongside a flurry of books, we have Alexander the movie directed by Oliver Stone, in which Professor Lane Fox (who has written his own film tie-in, The Making of Alexander) is filmed aged 58, dressed as a Macedonian officer in a blonde wig, riding in the front line of every cavalry charge. By the 1970s, Robin Lane Fox had to read 1,468 books and articles to write his celebrated biography of Alexander. ![]() ![]() "You may wonder," said Arrian in his introduction to his biography "why I am writing another book on Alexander the Great when there have been so many already." Arrian wrote at the end of the first century AD. ![]()
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