Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography

Until recently, popular biographers and most scholars viewed Alexander the Great as a genius with a plan, a romantic figure pursuing his vision of a united world. His dream was at times characterized as a benevolent interest in the brotherhood of man, sometimes as a brute interest in the exercise of power. Green, a Cambridge—trained classicist who is also a novelist, portrays Alexander as both a complex personality and a single—minded general, a man capable of such diverse expediencies as p...