Description
| Product ID: | 9780060570132 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Alexander the Great |
| Subtitle: | Journey to the End of the Earth |
| Authors: | Author: Norman F. Cantor |
| Page Count: | 192 |
| Subjects: | Biography: historical, political and military, Biography: historical, political & military, European history, Ancient history, European history, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient Greece |
| Description: | Describes Alexander's relations with his parents, his Oedipal complex and his bisexuality. This book shows Alexander's attempts to bridge the East and West, the Greek and Persian worlds, especially using Achilles, the hero of the Trojan War, as his model. It explores Alexander's view of himself in relation to the pagan gods of Greece and Egypt. "Alexander''s behavior was conditioned along certain lines -- heroism, courage, strength, superstition, bisexuality, intoxication, cruelty. He bestrode Europe and Asia like a supernatural figure." In this succinct portrait of Alexander the Great, distinguished scholar and historian Norman Cantor illuminates the personal life and military conquests of this most legendary of men. Cantor draws from the major writings of Alexander''s contemporaries combined with the most recent psychological and cultural studies to show Alexander as he was -- a great figure in the ancient world whose puzzling personality greatly fueled his military accomplishments. He 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, the Greek and Persian worlds, 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. More than a biography, Norman Cantor''s Alexander the Great is a psychological rendering of a man of his time. |
| Imprint Name: | HarperPerennial |
| Publisher Name: | HarperCollins Publishers Inc |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2007-11-20 |
