Alexander the Great Rocks the World

"When Alexander was sixteen, his father left town on business for a month and put him in charge-not of the house, of the whole country." From his start in Macedonia, Alexander went on to rule all of Greece by the time he was twenty. At twenty-five he had conquered Persia and Egypt and had come to believe he was a god. At thirty-two, he was king of the entire known world-but Alexander the Great still wanted more. Endnotes. Bibliography. Index. Black-and-white art.