Alexander the Great and the Making of a God: Divine Kingship, Sacred Lineage, and the Cosmology of Empire in the Ancient World - Paperback

Alexander the Great and the Making of a God explores the life and legacy of Alexander through conquest, sacred kingship, divine ancestry, astrology, cosmology, and the birth of the Hellenistic world.

Far more than a military biography, this volume examines how antiquity understood kingship itself. From Homeric epic and heroic lineage to the Oracle of Zeus Ammon, Babylonian astronomy, sacred omens, divine sonship, and imperial cosmology, Alexander emerges not only as a conqueror, but as a ruler whose authority was imagined as part of the cosmic order.

Tracing his transformation from Macedonian prince to universal ruler, this richly layered study follows Alexander through the interconnected worlds of Greece, Egypt, Persia, and Babylon.

Drawing upon ancient literary sources, archaeology, numismatics, sacred geography, and comparative mythology, this book reveals how the ancient world united history, religion, astronomy, kingship, and cosmology into one symbolic vision of empire.

For readers interested in mythology, ancient history, sacred kingship, classical civilisation, Egypt, Persia, Babylon, astrology, and the enduring legacy of Alexander the Great, this volume offers a compelling journey into one of history's most extraordinary figures.