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Alexander the Great in His World
by Carol G. Thomas

The subject of this study is Alexander, thus only marginally does Homer enter the story. So we are spared from plunging into the spider’s web known as “the Homeric Question.” “The Alexander Question” is formidable enough. Nor is it only a scholarly concern. So powerful is his image that it is explored for popular audiences in
seemingly countless books, articles, comic strips, documentaries, and full-length films, the most recent – Alexander directed by Oliver Stone – costing hundreds of millions of dollars to produce. Surely other films will appear in the attempt to discover the true Alexander. As a result a great many different images of the Macedonian king exist already and continue to proliferate.

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