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Peter Green is leading authority in classics and classical history He is a former journalist and has written many historical novels He is now Professor of Classics at the University of Texas His previous work on Alexander the Great received good reviews: 'As one reads through Peter Green's enthralling life of Alexander ... one feels every strand of the mythical story coming apart... Green takes a very bold revisionist stand against the imperial vainglory of antiquity' LA Times 'In every age, cultures both East and West have cast and recast [Alexander] in a variety of heroic molds, although, as demonstrated in Peter Green's impressive biography the myths may well be more admirable than the man' Washington Post 'A superb character study...Like Robert Graves, Green can make the ancient world and its people come alive...The scale of Alexander's life is marvellously conveyed' Kirkus Reviews 'Green's portrait ...of a complex, multi-dimensioned figure should appeal to this troubled age' The Classical Age

About the Author

Peter Green was born in Britain in 1924. In the Second World War he served in Burma and afterwards studied classics at Cambridge University. After working as a journalist and writing historical novels, he taught classics in Athens until 1971, when he became Professor of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin. In 1997 he became Emeritus Professor of Classics at Austin. He has been Visiting Professor at various universities in the USA.

Reviews

"This professor of classics is not afraid to take a view" -- Ross Leckie TIMES