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Edmund Richardson is Professor of Classics at Durham University. He studied for his PhD in Classics at Cambridge and took a postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton. In researching this book, he translated material from twelve ancient languages including Aramaic, Greek, Babylonian and Sanskrit. In 2016, he was named one of the BBC New Generation Thinkers – one of ten academics selected nationwide. His previous book, Alexandria: The Quest for the Lost City, was published by Bloomsbury in 2021.
Meticulously researched and dazzlingly written, Richardson’s Alexander is a triumph of scholarship and storytelling. The text is so lively, the insights so revealing, I felt as if I was reading about Alexander for the first time -- TOBY WILKINSON, author of The Last Dynasty: Ancient Egypt from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra A thrilling story, wonderfully told by one of the great historians -- KEN FOLLETT A compelling account of one of history’s greatest figures. Edmund Richardson has made full use of new discoveries in describing the life of Alexander, while conveying the tension and drama that accompanied his achievements and tragedies. Highly readable, enjoyable and authoritative -- WILLIAM HAGUE A pulsating, vivid life of a true historical titan. Alexander loomed over the world he conquered and the imagination of every great ruler who came after him. In this marvellous book, he has found a biographer with the scholarly insight and narrative verve to bring him thundering onto the page -- DAN JONES, bestselling author of Henry V A splendid book, lively, erudite, steeped in the vast non-European world which Alexander encountered. A book where myth and heroism meet -- RORY STEWART
