In the world of ancient Greece, two subjects have drawn exceptional attention from antiquity to the present Homer and Alexander III of Macedon. It is valuable to recall their connection: Alexander claimed descent from Achilles and he was reported to have slept with a copy of the Iliad as well as his sword, of course within reach. The subjects are linked in another way, one that helps to explain their attraction through the ages: both present serious questions, many of which seem to be unanswerable given the nature of the surviving evidence. Learning the true identity of Homer or of Alexander may be impossible. It has been argued that Homer was a title, not the name of a real person. [download]
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