{"product_id":"alexander-the-great-robin-lane-fox","title":"Alexander the Great — Robin Lane Fox","description":"\u003cp\u003eLane Fox's biography of Alexander has held its place for decades not because it resolves the historical problems but because it takes them seriously. He reads the ancient sources — Arrian, Plutarch, Curtius — with care and scepticism, reconstructs the campaigns with military precision across twenty thousand miles of terrain, and resists the temptation to reduce Alexander to a single explanatory framework: conqueror, visionary, philosopher-king, or paranoid. The result is a biography attentive to the sheer physical reality of the campaigns — the heat, the distance, the logistics — as well as to the psychology of a man who genuinely believed he was the son of a god.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"epoch-endorsement\"\u003e'A masterpiece of historical biography, combining scholarship with a storytelling gift of the highest order.' — \u003cem\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e. First published in 1973 and still the standard life in English.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Epoch Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53734528385351,"sku":null,"price":16.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0967\/9152\/7751\/files\/9780141020761.jpg?v=1776685438","url":"https:\/\/www.epochbooks.co.uk\/products\/alexander-the-great-robin-lane-fox","provider":"Epoch Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}