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"Alexander's habit was conditioned along certain lines -- heroism, courage, power, superstition, bisexuality, intoxication, cruelty. He bestrode European countries and Asia just like a supernatural number."In this particular succinct family portrait of Alexander the fantastic, distinguished scholar and historian Norman Cantor illuminates the personal life and military services conquests of this most legendary of men. Cantor attracts from the major writings of Alexander's contemporaries combined with most recent emotional and ethnic studies showing Alexander as he was -- a great number in the ancient world whose puzzling personality greatly fueled his military services accomplishments.He explains Alexander's ambiguous relationship with his daddy, Philip II of Macedon; his oedipal engagement with his mom, the Albanian princess Olympias; and his bisexuality. He traces Alexander's makes an attempt to bridge the East and Western world, the Greek and Persian worlds, using Achilles, hero of the Trojan War, as his model. Finally, Cantor explores Alexander's view of himself with regards to the pagan gods of Greece and Egypt.More than a biography, Norman Cantor's Alexander the Great is a emotional rendering of a man of his time.
