Fire From Heaven Author:Mary Renault Mary Renault's astounding epic of the making of a god...Alexander the Great. — To read Fire From Heaven is to be transported into the glorious world of ancient Greece...to walk among the giants of a golden age...to feel the stinging pitch of battle and the riotous abandon of a bacchanal...to share in the wisdom of Aristotle and witness the raging... more » lusts of Kings and Queens...
For you will know what it felt to be young Alexander the Great, a mighty conqueror who tasted the greatest glories the world had to offer, a boy destined from the cradle to be a god among men.« less