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Alexander
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Ptolemy, soldier, companion and eventual king of Egypt, looks back on the life of Alexander of Macedon. He remembers the ambitious prince who fought beside Philip II at Chaeronea, inherited a dangerous throne and carried the Macedonian army into Asia to destroy the power of Darius III.
Victories at Issus and Gaugamela open an empire stretching towards India, but conquest magnifies Alexander’s appetite for glory and the strain placed on those closest to him. Ptolemy’s account measures the commander’s brilliance against executions, fractured friendships and the growing claim to divinity that transformed a heroic king into a figure his companions could no longer fully recognise.
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