Book Review: “Becoming” (Dancing with the Lion #1) by Jeanne Reames
Recensione in italiano: QUI.
Hello everyone, thank you for being on Alessandro III di Macedonia, today I’m reviewing my latest, beautiful reading which is:
“Becoming” (Dancing with the Lion #1)
by Jeanne Reames
Riptide Publishing, 2019
ISBN: 978–1626498976, pages 287
Two boys, one heroic bond, and the molding of Greece’s greatest son.
Before he became known as Alexander the Great, he was Alexandros, the teenage son of the king of Makedon. Rather than living a life of luxury, as prince he has to be better and learn faster than his peers, tackling problems without any help. One such problem involves his increasingly complicated feelings for his new companion, Hephaistion.
When Alexandros and Hephaistion go to study under the philosopher Aristoteles, their evolving relationship becomes even harder to navigate. Strength, competition, and status define one’s fate in their world-a world that seems to have little room for the tenderness growing between them.
Alexandros is expected to command, not to crave the warmth of friendship with an equal. In a kingdom where his shrewd mother and sister are deemed inferior for their sex, and his love for Hephaistion could be seen as submission to an older boy, Alexandros longs to be a human being when everyone but Hephaistion just wants him to be a king.
Jeanne Reames received her PhD from the Pennsylvania State University in 1998, where she studied Macedonian history under Eugene N. Borza. In 2000, she was hired by the University of Nebraska, Omaha, and is now tenured faculty in the History Department, director of the Ancient Mediterranean Studies Program, and has served as History Graduate Program Chair.
In addition to short fiction, she’s published several academic articles and book chapters about Alexander and his court, as well as co-edited Macedonian Legacies with Tim Howe. Currently, she’s working on a biography of Hephaistion and pursuing research in Macedonian religion. She’s maintained an educational website about Hephaistion for almost two decades: jeannereames.net/Hephaistion/index.html
She will probably continue Alexander and Hephaistion’s story on into their Asian adventures sometime in the future, but is presently at work on a science-fiction series involving Dionysos and Ariadne.
She’s visited Greece several times, driving all over Macedonia, Epiros, and even into Bulgaria (ancient Thrace). Although she enjoys the Greek Islands (especially Naxos), her heart belongs to the mountains of the north.
On her last trip, she made a number of vlogs showing the land and some important sites mentioned in the novel. You can take a virtual tour on her website, or uncover other goodies and background information about Alexander and his homeland.
Classificazione: 4 su 5.
Reading time: from 4 to 9 January 2021.
Review here:
Thank you all, happy Sunday,
Classe 1988, laureata in Filosofia e Comunicazione, lettrice, amante dei gatti, di Alessandro Magno, delle serie tv, dei Linkin Park e degli aforismi. Ho due blog: Life is like a wave who rises and falls con recensioni dei libri e aforismi e Alessandro III di Macedonia: la tua risorsa su Alessandro Magno. Mostra tutti gli articoli di _elena_88
Originally published at http://alessandroiiidimacedonia.wordpress.com on January 10, 2021.
