ALEXANDER THE GREAT : JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE EARTH PB – NORMAN F. CANTOR

Relying on four biographies of Alexander s contemporaries, combined with modern psychiatric and cultural studies, Cantor describes Alexander s relations with his parents, his Oedipal complex and his bisexuality. At the center of the book are Alexander s attempts to bridge the East and West, the Greek and Persian worlds, especially his using Achilles, the 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. The result is a psychological and cultural study of a great figure of the ancient world whose often puzzling personality had so much to do with his career.