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Legends of Alexander the Great'How can a man become a god?' So enquired Alexander the Great of the Brahmin sages of India. And how did they reply? 'By doing what it is impossible for a man to do.' And that answer set a keynote for the Conqueror's entire career, which was characterized throughout by Alexander's attempts to achieve the unachievable: to scale the fresh heights and make the incredible real and tangible on earth. He wrestled an Indian monster larger than an elephant,

A riveting new history of the Bronze Age Aegean and a journey through Homer’s epics charted entirely by women – from Helen of Troy

their performance conventions

were remarkable against the background of a fragile regime that was

and how the play has evolved through translation

and how secrecy holds them all in its powerful grip

in which a small landowner

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clinging to their own identities under the occupation

This is nowhere more clear than in the ancient novel

literature and civilisation in major countries across the world

terrifying

In "The Hill of Kronos"