Updated June 23rd

Happy Sunday, I’m Elena from Italy and thanks to be here on Alessandro III di Macedonia- your source about Alexander the Great and Hellenism! Today I’d like to share with you a new historical fiction book that will be published in a few months:

Young Conquerors

A Novel of Hephaestion and Alexandros

by Christopher Cosmos

Peninsula Press

Out: September 10, 2024

A boy who was never meant to be king, a horizon waiting to be explored, a love and legend that moved and created worlds, and has been erased… until now.

Pella, Greece; 341 B.C.

Alexandros is a middle child caught between two warring spouses, born to both a king and queen, but never meant to rule himself. When a mysterious young man arrives from the north, fleeing his own family, and meets Alexandros in a garden in the Macedonian capital, the bond that’s created between them will soon become unbreakable and ultimately define both the direction of the Ancient World, and ours.

For fans of The Song of Achilles and Madeline Miller, Young Conquerors is a novel of the vast mysteries of the human heart that gives two of the most important figures in history the love story they deserve and shows how Alexandros, later called “the Great,” was shaped, formed, and ultimately turned into the man who would go on to become the greatest conqueror and visionary the world had ever seen, all told through the eyes of the one he loved, and who knew him best.

A beautiful, sweeping, epic, and breathtaking novel from a new and important voice in Greek fiction, this is an intimate and vivid portrait of two of the most famous young men in history as they’ve never been seen before: caught between youthful ambition and eternal love, and on the precipice of changing the world.
Christopher Cosmos is a bestselling author and Black List screenwriter who was raised in the Midwest and attended the University of Michigan as the recipient of a Chick Evans Scholarship. He lives and writes in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he grew up. For more about him and his work, please follow along on Instagram @christophercosmos.

Hardback
ISBN: 979-8989413409
402 pp.
29,32 €

Kindle
ASIN: B0CW3BTWDF
File dimensions: 2184 KB
9,99 €

Historical – Ancient
LGBTQ+ – Bisexual
World Literature – Greece

Although I don’t know this author, looking at his biography I’d also be interested in reading Once We Were Here and this book on Alexander and Hephaestion interests me a lot. It’s interesting to note that the first name between the two is Hephaestion so I assume that the story will be told from his point of view. We just have to wait until September to be able to read it!

I hadn’t noticed something that Dr. Reames noticed and it made me turn up my nose a little. I don’t know if it’s poorly done research or a “simple” mistake but it’s something that doesn’t inspire much confidence. If the author is self-published he would do better to fix these oversights, but if he is published by a publisher it is an indication of poor quality. Alexandros is in Greek but Hephaestion is in Latin or English and in Greek should be Hephaistion. There’s a bit of confusion, right?