Roman Alexander : Reading a Cultural Myth

If Alexander the Great had not existed, then he would have to have been invented. But the "Alexander" that still fascinates now is far more than the sum of the mainstream biographical tradition. This book offers an insight into a world where to think about Alexander was to engage with the buring ideological issues of Rome during the first centuries BCE and CE, a period of intense and often political and cultural change.

The author has made a selection of the diverse mentions of Alexand…