{"product_id":"the-golden-mean-9781848875319","title":"The Golden Mean","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis gripping historical novel plunges into the \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eancient\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e world of Aristotle and his pupil, later the\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003evirtual psychopath and world conqueror, Alexander the Great.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMacedon. 367 BC.\u003c\/b\u003e Philip II is bringing war to Persia. Forged in the warrior culture of Macedonia, the time has come for his young son Alexander to take up his inheritance of blood and obedience to the sword. It is a training that has made the boy sadistic; fiercely brilliant, but unstable. A dangerous trait in a king fated to rule the vastest empire of the ancient world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCompelled to teach this startling, precocious, sometimes horrifying child, Aristotle soon realises that what the boy needs most to learn - thrown before his time onto his father's battlefields - is the lesson of the golden mean, the elusive balance between extremes that Aristotle hopes will mitigate the boy's will to conquer in this age of fighting heroes...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Gripping - powerful - Lyon has the gift of finding the pulse of the ancient world and bringing it back to glorious life.' The Times","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53516178882903,"sku":"9781848875319","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-golden-mean-9781848875319","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}