David Grant's Blog

The result of a decade of academic research, In Search Of The Lost Testament Of Alexander The Great is presented as a rich thematic narrative written in an entertaining and engaging style that opens the subject of Greek, Roman, and even Renaissance commentary on Alexander to both the scholar and the casual reader of history. Taking an uncompromising investigative perspective, Grant delves into the challenges faced by Alexanders unique tale: the forgeries and biased historians, the influences of rhetoric, romance, philosophy and religion on what was written and how. Alexanders own mercurial personality is vividly dissected, and the careers and the wars of his successors are presented with a unique eye. The result is a wholly new interpretation of the death of Alexander the Great and the mechanism behind the wars of succession that followed.