Alexander the Great: Journey to the End of the Earth by Norman F. Cantor

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628529 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Alexander the Great: Journey to the End of the Earth Author: Norman F. Cantor Narrator: Bronson Pinchot Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 21 minutes Release date: July 8, 2008 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 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 draws on the major writings of Alexander's contemporaries as well as the most recent psychological and cultural studies to illuminate this most legendary of men—a great figure in the ancient world whose puzzling personality greatly fueled his military accomplishments. Cantor 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, Cantor's Alexander the Great is a psychological rendering of a man of his time.