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This gripping historical novel plunges into the ancient world of Aristotle and his pupil, later thevirtual psychopath and world conqueror, Alexander the Great.
Macedon. 367 BC. Philip II is bringing war to Persia. Forged in the warrior culture of Macedonia, the time has come for his young son Alexander to take up his inheritance of blood and obedience to the sword. It is a training that has made the boy sadistic; fiercely brilliant, but unstable. A dangerous trait in a king fated to rule the vastest empire of the ancient world.
Compelled to teach this startling, precocious, sometimes horrifying child, Aristotle soon realises that what the boy needs most to learn - thrown before his time onto his father's battlefields - is the lesson of the golden mean, the elusive balance between extremes that Aristotle hopes will mitigate the boy's will to conquer in this age of fighting heroes...
Publisher: Atlantic Books
ISBN: 9781848875319
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 288 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 22 mm
Edition: Main
'Gripping - powerful - Lyon has the gift of finding the pulse of the ancient world and bringing it back to glorious life.' The Times
The Golden Mean is the first novel by Annabel Lyon is a story set in 367BC. The story starts with Philip II at war with Persia the time has come for his young son Alexander (soon to turn into Alexander the Great) to... More
She reminds me of Mary Renault with gripping pace to the storyline and good detail to make the characters seem real and the places and actions come alive in the mind's eye. The writing is more modern and spare... More
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