Who Was Alexander The Great?
Who Was Alexander The Great?
WOODBURY â History buffs are invited to join classical scholar and historian Guy MacLean Rogers at Woodbury Public Library on Tuesday, December 21, at 7 pm, to discuss his latest book, Alexander, the Ambiguity of Greatness.
Who was the man behind the mask of power? Why did Alexander embark on an unprecedented program of global domination? What accounted for his astonishing success on the battlefield? Alexander was King of Macedonia by age 20, ruler of the known world by age 30, and dead by age 32.
Mr MacLean Rogers has sifted through thousands of years of history and myth to uncover the truth about this complex, ambiguous genius.
Mr MacLean Rogers is a professor of classics and history at Wellesley College. He has received many grants and scholarships, including the National Endowment for the Humanities, American Philosophical Society, and All Souls College, Oxford University. He was a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions at the Harvard Divinity School.
His first book, The Sacred Identity of Ephesos: Foundation Myths of a Roman City, won the Routledge Ancient History Prize.
For further information, call the library at 203-263-3502. This program is free and open to the public. Registration is requested, but not required. The library is at 269 Main Street South (Route 6).