390 pages
English language
Published April 9, 2003 by Arrow Books.
Mary Renault: Fire from heaven (2003, Arrow Books)
- ISBN:
- 978-0-09-946347-4
- OCLC Number:
- 52829757
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Fire from Heaven is a 1969 historical novel by Mary Renault about the childhood and youth of Alexander the Great. It reportedly was a major inspiration for the Oliver Stone film Alexander.
Subjects
- Alexander, -- the Great, -- 356-323 B.C. -- Fiction.
- Philip -- II, -- King of Macedonia, -- 382-336 B.C. -- Fiction.
- Kings and rulers -- Fiction.
- Generals -- Fiction.
- Greece -- History -- Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C. -- Fiction.
- Macedonia -- History -- To 168 B.C. -- Fiction.