Superb

More than just an audio book, this is a series of lectures which includes a PDF file with useful links to extend as far as you would want to go to conduct a serious study of Alexander. Thoroughly enjoyable and essential tool to research this period.

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Alexander Interesting

I have been told I was going to be called Alexander, prior to my mother intervening, but now, after listening to Professor Fox, I wish I had been. Prof Fox gets all the info across to you in these fascinating lectures on a man who surely must be one of the greatest men to walk the Earth; nearly conquering it! Well set out in production and easy to catch up on, these are the subjects that I wish I?d been taught on; it would have made my schooling more interesting.

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the modern scholar Alexander of Macedonia

A detailed look at the life and times of this fascinating figure, a lot of interesting thoughts and ideas from looking at writings of the times, the politics of the area both before, during and after his life. The life and times of Philip of Macedon, Alexander's father, was shown to be essential to Alexander's later triumphs

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Ancient History Brought To Life

I have downloaded three (so far) Modern Scholars audiobooks and they have all been of a high standard, both educational and interesting. Useful also is the study guide that can be downloaded with most of these audiobooks.
This Alexander audiobook is presented by Robin Lane Fox, one of the great authorities on Alexander of Macedonia (or Alexander the Great, as he has come to be known). Alexander's father, Philip, conquered Greece and when Alexander succeeded him he extended the empire into Persia and India. When he died, the eastern part of his empire collapsed. However, the western part persevered and we refer to this as the Hellenistic period.

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Unsurpassable lecture series

There’s nothing better than listening to Prof Lane Fox again speaking about the great man. So pleased I found this. Absolutely best thing I’ve listened to on Audible by miles

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Fantasticly detailed overview of Alexander's life

Fantasticly detailed overview of Alexander's life and influence on World history from the leading Alexander historian

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Excellent

This series is an excellent way to learn about the life and career is Alexander the Great. Robin lane fox is an excellent gui

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Very informative but increasingly irritating.

The amount of information in these lectures is impressive and, at first, fascinating and it gripped me at the start. However, it became increasingly apparent that the lecturer adored Alexander and seemed to excuse all the massacres and other ghastly acts committed by him. . At times, as Prof Fox gushingly revealed yet another “god-like” achievement of Alexander, I found his tone overly-emotional as though he were about to shed a tear. By the time I was halfway through the lectures, and excuse after excuse for Alexander’s murderous megalomania were delivered by the author, I was actually looking forward to Alexander (who as the Prof said, had the “greatest killing force in history”) getting his comeuppance and dying. With all the death and destruction wrought by this, to me, fairly ghastly, egocentric, murderously petulant, and utterly obsessive man, I feel as though I need a biography of Jesus or the Buddha as an antidote. Personally, my idea of a hero would be someone like William Wilberforce whose aim was to end the suffering caused to untold numbers of people by the slave trade and who fought with words and not with a sword like Alexander who brought suffering to untold numbers of people. . To me, this was like a biography written by Alexander’s head of P.R as the author eulogises over Alexander’s conquests yet with seemingly barely any words of sympathy for the numberless victims of "the greatest killing force in history". At his final summing up, I thought the author was going to burst into tears.

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A warm, conversational telling of Alexander's life

Professor Lane Fox loves the life and times of Alexander the Great. He tells the whole story, end to end, giving his insightful and personal take. Comprehensive and delightful. I highly recommend.

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awesome Alexander: awesome audiobook

I really enjoyed listening to this book. I learnt so much about Alexander and the world he lived in.



I also really appreciated the personal touch of Robin Lane Fox. In particular, I laughed at Professor Fox's account of how he followed in Alexander's footsteps by running naked around the city walls of Troy (he hoped for Alexander's sake that there was less thistles when Alexander did this 2300 years ago). As payment for being the historical adviser on Oliver Stone's recent feature film of Alexander he also insisted on leading every Greek cavalry charge which occured in the film. Now thats an unusual history Professor!

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