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What made him great? Celebrated as a military leader, Alexander took over an empire created by the Persians. Julia Hartley's essay looks at two examples of myth making about Alexander: The Persian Boy, a 1972 historical novel by the English writer Mary Renault and the Sh膩n膩meh or 鈥楤ook of Kings鈥, an epic written by the medieval Persian poet Abdolghassem Ferdowsi. Julia Hartley lectures at King's College London. She was selected in 2021 as a New Generation Thinker on the scheme run by 麻豆社 Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council which turns research into radio. You can hear her in this Free Thinking discussion Dante's Visions /programmes/m000zm9b and in another episode about Epic Iran, Lost Cities and Proust /programmes/m000xlzh Producer: Torquil MacLeod
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