The novel, which resists the temptation to portray Alexander in the mantle of purely romantic legend, covers his life from age fifteen to his death at age thirty-two.
English: AlexandertheGreat (Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Μέγας) was a king of Macedon, an Ancient Greek kingdom in the north of Classical Greece and later the dominant state of Hellenistic Greece.