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Fire from Heaven - Mary Renault
Fire from Heaven
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“Written with her usual vigor and imagination...Mary Renault has a great talent.”–The New York Times Book ReviewAlexander’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... show more
“Written with her usual vigor and imagination...Mary Renault has a great talent.”–The New York Times Book ReviewAlexander’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 fueled 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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780375726828 (0375726829)
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
Series: Alexander the Great (#1)
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By Singing Light
By Singing Light rated it
0.0 Fire From Heaven
I enjoyed this first book about Alexander the Great, but also I became very anxious about MWT’s Gen because of parallels. Arrghhhhh. Anyway, on its own merits this is immersive & beautiful.
Lisa (Harmony)
Lisa (Harmony) rated it
5.0 Fire from Heaven
My introduction to Mary Renault was The King Must Die, the first of two novels about Theseus--it was actually assigned reading in high school. What impressed me so much there was how she took a figure out of myth and grounded him historically. After that I quickly gobbled up all of Renault's works o...
Towers of Books Come Tumbling Down!
Towers of Books Come Tumbling Down! rated it
5.0 Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault
Rating: 5/5Summary: Alexander the Great is known as the man who conquered the biggest empire of the ancient world, his battle strategies are still being studied in military schools today, some 2300 years after his death. But what made the man who he was? Renault’s first book of the Alexander trilogy...
sarahsar
sarahsar rated it
Alexander the Great lived only thirty-two years (356 - 323 BC), but in that time he attained a stature unequaled in ancient history. Celebrated as one of the greatest generals of the ancient world, he expanded his kingdom of Macedon into a vast empire, throughout Greece and extending as far as Egypt...
Cassandra Reads
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4.0 Fire from Heaven [Mary Renault]
I think this is the longest it has taken me to read a book in a long time. Classes started and the book is a little complex and wordy. I liked it (4 stars, you know). this book is something that I have never read before, I've read historical books before, but I've never read one set in Ancient Greec...
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