Funeral games

By Mary Renault

Subjects: History, Death and burial, Fiction, Greece -- History -- Macedonian Hegemony, 323-281 B.C. -- Sources, Sources, Greece, fiction, Alexander, the Great, 356-323 B.C, Alexander, the Great, 356-323 B.C. -- Death and burial -- Fiction, Kings and rulers, Fiction, historical, general, Generals, Fiction, general

Description: As Funeral Games opens, Alexander the Great lies dying. Around his body gather the generals, the provincial satraps and the royal wives, already competing for the prizes of power and land. Only Bagoas, the Persian boy mourning in the shadows, wants nothing. Tracing the events of the fifteen years following Alexander's death, Funeral Games sees his mighty empire disintegrate, and brings Mary Renault's Alexander trilogy to a dramatic close.