| Record Number |
738627 |
| ISBN |
9781844089574 (paperback) |
| Author |
Renault, Mary author. |
| Title |
Fire from heaven / Mary Renault ; introduced by Tom Holland. |
| Edition |
New edition. |
| Publisher/Date |
London : Virago, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group, 2014. |
| ©1969 |
| Pagination etc. |
xiv, 427 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Series |
Virago modern classics |
| Contents note |
First published in Vintage by Longmans Green & Co. in 1970. |
| Summary Note |
Alexander's beauty, strength and defiance were apparent from birth, but his boyhood honed those gifts into the makings of a king. His mother, Olympias, and his father, King Philip of Macedon, fought each other for their son's loyalty, teaching Alexander politics and vengeance from the cradle. His love for the youth Hephaistion taught him trust, while Aristotle's tutoring provoked his mind and Homer's Iliad fuelled his aspirations. Killing his first man in battle at the age of twelve, he became regent at sixteen and commander of Macedon's cavalry at eighteen, so that by the time his father was murdered, Alexander's skills had grown to match his fiery ambition. |
| Subject - Name |
Alexander, -- the Great,356 B.C.-323 B.C. -- Fiction |
| Subject |
Greece -- History -- Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C. -- Fiction |
| Historical fiction. |
| Added Author |
Holland, Tom, 1969- author of introduction, etc. |
| Shelf Location |
F RENA |
