He was a romantic and a realist, a lover of strong women and beautiful men. And though he was at one time the richest, most powerful man in the world, his most prized possession was a book -- Homer's The Iliad, annotated by his tutor, Aristotle. Most of all, he was as much a myth as a man and a mystery ... even to himself. When Alexander the Great died in Babylon in 323 B.C. a month shy of his 33rd birthday and after conquering and reordering...