“Alexander the Great”

The Hunt for a New Past

/—/ But who was Alexander? Deity? Mortal? Hero? Tyrant? Bisexual? Megalomaniac? Patricide? Conqueror of the entire known world? Savage hunter of both beast and man? In this original and provocative biographical study, Professor Paul Cartledge offers an authoritative, compelling and vividly readable account of Alexander’s extraordinary life, astonishing achievements and complex legacy, and explores his multiple and multifarious identities in the hunt for a new vision of Alexander. /—/