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

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

Oakes (Gaelic Mac Dubhdara), Peta

Paperback

Series: The Ancient Worlds and Sacred Cosmologies

Literary CriticismReligion General Ancient Greece

ISBN10: 1764677897
ISBN13: 9781764677899
Publisher: Peta Oakes
Published: May 16 2026
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.64 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

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.

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