Soldier, priest, and god : a life of Alexander the Great /
This is the first life of Alexander the Great to explore his religious experience, to put his experience in Egypt and Asia on a par with his Macedonian upbringing and Greek education, and to explain how the European conqueror became a Moslem saint.
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- The Mediterranean comes of age
- A Macedonian priest-king
- The s-curve
- The throne of Tyre
- The throne of Egypt
- The throne of Babylon
- A vacant throne
- Sogdian in-laws
- Self-defeat
- Persian in-laws
- The waters of life
- Dead men and a living king.