Review of Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend, by Richard Stoneman (New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2008)
… that met the needs and outlooks of the narrating culture (
Egyptian, Persian, Arabic, Byzantine, etc.). The book is … beginning with a look at Alexander's birth and focusing on
Egyptian and Persian traditions. In antiquity the birth of a … All of these are present in the Alexander legends. The
Egyptian tradition, for example, credited Nectanebo, the …