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The classic final part of the acclaimed Alexander the Great trilogy
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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 powe 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. (20030605)
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is the third book of Renault's Alexander Trilogy which started with Fire from Heaven and continued with The Persian Boy. It's a difficult book to read as the absence of Alexander, dead in Babylon, is so painful to contemplate, but that's a mark of how involving and real the books are: we really care that this man is dead, and like some of the characters at least, we too are disorientated and don't know how the world is going to continue without him.
It does, of course. But not as it once was: the death of Alexander forces the hands of everyone ever involved with him and the political machinations of his family, friends, enemies and fellow commanders is what this book focuses on. Political, complex and intricate, it yet subtly shows the strength and force of personality of Alexander himself in the very fact of his absence which haunts this book to the end.
A far cry from Manfredi and Pressfield, this is both steeped in an understanding of the ancient sources and yet is an imaginative recreation of a vanished world that belongs uniquely to Renault.
It does, of course. But not as it once was: the death of Alexander forces the hands of everyone ever involved with him and the political machinations of his family, friends, enemies and fellow commanders is what this book focuses on. Political, complex and intricate, it yet subtly shows the strength and force of personality of Alexander himself in the very fact of his absence which haunts this book to the end.
A far cry from Manfredi and Pressfield, this is both steeped in an understanding of the ancient sources and yet is an imaginative recreation of a vanished world that belongs uniquely to Renault.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is the last in Mary Renault's Alexander trilogy, although Alexander doesn't really make an appearance in it at all. His shadow hovers over everything that happens, but he is dead by the start of the book. This is about how his followers, relatives, successors tore themselves apart after his death, each striving to assume power, to follow Alexander's wishes, to avenge old scores and feuds. Of course, the whole point of a man like Alexander is that no-one could follow him, no-one could live up to such a legend. Sometimes I think it's a strange way to end a trilogy of books about Alexander, with Alexander dead and gone by the end of the middle book, but I suppose how his empire disintegrated after him is as much a part of his story as anything that went on before.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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The book can become very complex and broken up, as I imagine the events afer Alexander's death to be. More of a history book than a novel but interesting and even exciting at the same time this book is essential reading to tie up the loose ends of the first two enstallments of this brillient trilogy.
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Sad - not Mary's best
Funeral Games is the third novel Mary Renault wrote, after Fire from Heaven and The Persian Boy - the first about Alexander's boyhood and the second about his Asian conquests till... Read more
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Brilliant!
This is the final instalment in Mary Renault's Alexander trilogy. Many authors have written about Alexander in recent times and I've read many of them (by David Gemmel, Steven... Read more
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