Alexander the Great

Reading Level
Grade 11
Time to Read
7 hrs 48 mins

Reading Level

What is the reading level of Alexander the Great?

Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of Alexander the Great is 10th and 11th grade.

Expert Readability Tests for
Alexander the Great

Readability Test Reading Level
Flesch Kincaid Scale Grade 10
SMOG Index Grade 12
Coleman Liau Index Grade 10
Dale Chall Readability Score Grade 7

Reading Time

7 hrs 48 mins

How long to read Alexander the Great?

The estimated word count of Alexander the Great is 116,870 words.

A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 7 hrs 48 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 13 hrs. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 4 hrs 20 mins.

Alexander the Great - 116,870 words
Reading Speed Time to Read
Slow 150 words/min 13 hrs
Average 250 words/min 7 hrs 48 mins
Fast 450 words/min 4 hrs 20 mins
Alexander the Great by Philip Freeman
Authors
Philip Freeman

More about Alexander the Great

116,870 words

Word Count

for Alexander the Great

12 hours and 34 minutes

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Description

In the first authoritative biography of Alexander the Great written for a general audience in a generation, classicist and historian Philip Freeman tells the remarkable life of the great conqueror. The celebrated Macedonian king has been one of the most enduring figures in history. He was a general of such skill and renown that for two thousand years other great leaders studied his strategy and tactics, from Hannibal to Napoleon, with countless more in between. He flashed across the sky of history like a comet, glowing brightly and burning out quickly: crowned at age nineteen, dead by thirty-two. He established the greatest empire of the ancient world; Greek coins and statues are found as far east as Afghanistan. Our interest in him has never faded. Alexander was born into the royal family of Macedonia, the kingdom that would soon rule over Greece. Tutored as a boy by Aristotle, Alexander had an inquisitive mind that would serve him well when he faced formidable obstacles during his military campaigns. Shortly after taking command of the army, he launched an invasion of the Persian empire, and continued his conquests as far south as the deserts of Egypt and as far east as the mountains of present-day Pakistan and the plains of India. Alexander spent nearly all his adult life away from his homeland, and he and his men helped spread the Greek language throughout western Asia, where it would become the lingua franca of the ancient world. Within a short time after Alexander’s death in Baghdad, his empire began to fracture. Best known among his successors are the Ptolemies of Egypt, whose empire lasted until Cleopatra. In his lively and authoritative biography of Alexander, classical scholar and historian Philip Freeman describes Alexander’s astonishing achievements and provides insight into the mercurial character of the great conqueror. Alexander could be petty and magnanimous, cruel and merciful, impulsive and farsighted. Above all, he was ferociously, intensely competitive and could not tolerate losing—which he rarely did. As Freeman explains, without Alexander, the influence of Greece on the ancient world would surely not have been as great as it was, even if his motivation was not to spread Greek culture for beneficial purposes but instead to unify his empire. Only a handful of people have influenced history as Alexander did, which is why he continues to fascinate us.