Alexander King of Macedon

An Argument explains the poem's source in Plutarch. AF 's hero, whose father was an associate of Alexander the Great , is dead after many vicissitudes. His ashes make a triumphal progress by sea from...

She intended it to run from the ancient Persian Empire to the time of King Herod (that is, the time of Christ), and to treat male characters in it (Cyrus , Alexander , Aristotle

MB 's first historical novel, The Macedonian (about the life of Alexander the Great ), was published by Heinemann .

FS published Alexander's Path, from Caria to Cilicia, a book that recounts her search for the route of Alexander the Great 's historic march through Asia Minor.

MR finished Fire from Heaven, her first novel on the life of Alexander the Great , which features his early life.

MR published the second novel of her Alexandriad, The Persian Boy, featuring the later life of Alexander the Great .

MR published Funeral Games, her final novel on Alexander the Great , portraying the struggles for power that occurred after his death.

Though the poem, in heroic couplets, turns at the end to praise of virtue, its notion of indolence is more positive than that of James Thomson in The Castle of Indolence, 1748. In leisurely...

A note in Campaspe confesses that the subject of the title-poem is over-ambitious. It is an allegory in which Alexander the Great (representing Glory) resigns Campaspe (representing Beauty) to Apelles the sculptor (Genius). This piece...