How long does it take to read The Life of Alexander the Great?
The Life of Alexander the Great by Plutarch takes about 1 hour 19 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 19 minutes
An evening's read
First published 2004. 72 pages, about 19,800 words.
3 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 2 hours 12 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 19 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 50 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"In 336 b.c. Philip of Macedonia was assassinated and his twenty-year-old son, Alexander, inherited his kingdom. Immediately quelling rebellion, Alexander extended his father's empire throughout the Middle East and into parts of Asia, fulfilling the soothsayer Aristander's prediction that the new king "should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labour and sweat to describe and celebrate him."" "The Life of Alexander the Great is one of the first surviving attempts to memorialize the achievements of this legendary king, remembered today as the greatest military genius of all time. This exclusive Modern Library edition, excerpted from Plutarch's Lives, is a tale of honor, power, scandal, and bravery written by the most eminent biographer of the ancient world."--Jacket.
Subjects: Biography, Generals, Kings and rulers, Généraux, Biographies, HISTORY
