THE 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 througho ut by Alexander's attempts to achieve the unachievable: to scale the fresh heights and make the incredible real and tangible on eart h. He wrestled an Indian monster larger than an elephant, fought ants the size of foxes and contested bats with human teeth. He beca me a Jewi...[Llegir més]