Ranieri, Dee

Alexander the Great : journey to the end of the earth by Norman F Cantor( Book )

12 editions published between 2005 and 2009 in English and held by 885 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Chronicles the life of Macedonian emperor Alexander the Great, examining his accomplishments, his relationships with his parents, his bisexuality, his view of himself in relation to the Greek and Egyptian gods, and the ethos of the age in which he lived

Alexander the Great : journey to the end of the earth by Norman F Cantor( )

18 editions published between 2008 and 2011 in English and held by 210 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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