Alexander the Great and the Making of a God: Divine Kingship, Sacred Lineage, and the Cosmology of Empire in the Ancient World (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781764677899)

Step into the world of Alexander the Great as never before through a sweeping exploration of conquest, sacred kingship, divine ancestry, astrology, cosmology, and the birth of the Hellenistic world.

Alexander the Great and the Making of a God: Divine Kingship, Sacred Lineage, and the Cosmology of Empire in the Ancient World traces Alexander's transformation from Macedonian prince to universal ruler through the interconnected intellectual worlds of Greece, Egypt, Persia, and Babylon.

Far more than a military biography, this work examines how antiquity understood kingship itself. Through Homeric epic, heroic lineage, the Oracle of Zeus Ammon, Babylonian astronomy, sacred omens, divine sonship, and imperial cosmology, Alexander emerges not merely as conqueror, but as a ruler whose authority appeared woven into the very structure of the cosmos.

Drawing upon ancient literary sources, archaeology, numismatics, sacred geography, and comparative mythology, this book explores 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, cosmology, classical civilisation, Egypt, Persia, Babylon, astrology, and the enduring legacy of Alexander the Great, this volume offers a richly layered journey into one of history's most extraordinary figures.