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Downloadable Audiobook, 2008
Current format, Downloadable Audiobook, 2008, Unabridged, Available.
Downloadable Audiobook, 2008
Current format, Downloadable Audiobook, 2008, Unabridged, Available. Offered in 0 more formats
In this portrait of Alexander the Great, scholar and historian Norman Cantor draws on the major writings of Alexander's contemporaries, as well as the most recent psychological and cultural studies, to illuminate this most legendary of men--a great figure in the ancient world, whose puzzling personality greatly fueled his military accomplishments. Cantor describes Alexander's ambiguous relationship with his father, Philip II of Macedon; his oedipal involvement with his mother, the Albanian princess Olympias; and his bisexuality. He traces Alexander's attempts to bridge the East and West, using Achilles, hero of the Trojan War, as his model. Finally, Cantor explores Alexander's view of himself in relation to the pagan gods of Greece and Egypt
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