Soldier, Priest, and God: A Life of Alexander the Great

ISBN-13: 9780190875343 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 424 str.

F. S. Naiden

Opis

Soldier, Priest, and God is the first life of Alexander the Great to explore his religious experience. F. S. Naiden puts Alexander the Great's experience in Egypt and Asia on a par with his Macedonian upbringing and Greek education and explains how the European conqueror became a Muslim saint.

Recenzje

It might seem improbable that anyone could have much to say that is new about Alexander the Great, but Naiden has done it—and with gusto. This is a new portrait not of the man as military general, wily politician, flawed human, or exotic explorer, but as religious leader. Naiden places religion back exactly where it should be: central to the experience of the many cultures stretched across the ancient world that Alexander visited and conquered. And in so doing, Naiden has brought us closer to Alexander than we perhaps have ever been before.

O autorze

A former New York subway motorman, F. S. Naiden is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of Ancient Supplication.