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Rise by Jeanne Reames6/3/2023 There was significantly more attention paid to the relationships he had with his friends, his family, and, of course, Hephaistion. Book I was about learning who Alexandros was, how he thought, how his experiences formed his adult character. The differences between this book and the first are stark. What sources are to be believed? Which facts or theories will work best with the narrative the author wants to present? Add to that the fact that the society he lived in is also poorly understood and completely foreign to the world we live in today, and writing a book of this scope becomes hugely difficult. Reames mentions in her postscript, the information about Alexander is nebulous, contradictory, overlaid with myth and altered by centuries of political changes – there is no way to know the full truth. I am a huge fan of historical fiction, but I recognize that it is inherently much more difficult to write a historical biography, and especially when the character written about is almost mythical.
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