Just published, Alexander’s Lovers is the additional book by Andrew Chugg, the columnist of The Lost Tomb of Alexander the Great. It presents an analysis of Alexander’s appearance through the mirror of the lives of the humans with whom he pursued adventurous relationships, including his acquaintance Hephaistion, his queen Roxane, his bedmate Barsine and Bagoas the Eunuch. It incorporates abundant new analysis and tells a added complete adaptation of their biographies than has ahead been published
-- The German scholar, Ulrich Wilcken, wrote that the affair of Alexander’s personality is the hardest botheration in history. Alexander’s Lovers takes a atypical access to this claiming by investigating the King’s appearance through the mirror of the lives of his lovers.
Foremost a allotment of these relationships was that with Hephaistion, the accompaniment of Alexander’s youth, who after rose to become his deputy. Yet aswell of key accent were Roxane, the King’s fabulously admirable Afghan queen, Barsine, his Persian mistress, and Bagoas, the eunuch who entered Alexander’s account abreast the shores of the Caspian Sea. There were others, including Pankaste, the Thessalian courtesan, Thalestris, Queen of the Amazons, Stateira and Parysatis, the Persian princesses and Cleophis, Queen of Massaga, but these liaisons were either about political in attributes or alone mythical.
To accept Alexander well, it is all-important to chase his affection added anxiously than his policies. Anyone who would like to get to apperceive Alexander on a added claimed akin than is achievable from the absolute histories should apprehend Alexander’s Lovers.
Alexander’s Lovers is aimed at the ample ambit of Alexander enthusiasts who accept been balked to acquisition his rather arresting adulation activity relegated to little added than ashamed footnotes in the accepted histories of his career. It is aswell rendered accessible to the added admirers of filmgoers who accept afresh apparent Oliver Stone’s Alexander cine by the assimilation of an 18,000-word prologue accouterment a abridged anterior adventures of the King.
There is a website at www.alexanderslovers.com in abutment of the new book with a sample chapter, a alternative of images and added background. For added advice you are acceptable to acquaintance the columnist directly. Alexander’s Lovers is now accessible through abounding online bookstores (Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Lulu and others).
About the Author
In following of a life-long absorption in the accountable of Alexander the Great, Andrew has been actively publishing on the accountable for the accomplished 5 years. He has been researching the history of Alexander’s tomb back 1998, including visits to Alexandria and Saqqara in Egypt and culminating in the advertisement of his aboriginal book, The Lost Tomb of Alexander the Great (see www.alexanderstomb.com), in November 2004. He has aswell had bookish online autograph on the tomb appear in the abstract account Greece & Rome and in the American Journal of Ancient History and has accounting pieces on the affair for Minerva and History Today. More recently, Andrew has produced several online autograph apropos Alexander’s abstruse death, including a above bookish abstraction of the King’s own journal, from which derives the a lot of abundant anniversary of his abortive demise. Andrew apprehend Natural Sciences at Trinity College in the University of Cambridge in the UK, admission with honours in 1985. He currently works as a Technical Expert for MBDA in Bristol.
Contact:
Andrew Chugg
http://www.alexanderslovers.com/
44 (0)7974 332152
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