The Golden Mean

by Annabel Lyon

Book Overview

On the orders of his boyhood friend, now King Philip of Macedon, Aristotle postpones his dreams of succeeding Plato as leader of the Academy in Athens and reluctantly arrives in the Macedonian capital of Pella to tutor the king's adolescent sons. An early illness has left one son with the intellect of a child; the other is destined for greatness but struggles between a keen mind that craves instruction and the pressures of a society that demands his...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307356213
• ISBN13: 9780307356215
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Vintage Books Canada
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 8.0"