All Alexander's Women: The Facts - Softcover

Bosschart, Robbert

9781439272015: All Alexander's Women: The Facts

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1439272018 ISBN 13: 9781439272015

Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub, 2010

In Alexander's life story, the classical sources mention 33 women whose presence had a minor or major impact on his career. Only his mother Olympias is amply described - but always to negative effect - while the others merely appear in fleeting anecdotes. This betrays the bias of the Greek and Roman writers, unwilling to see women in an independent and positive role. But in All Alexander's Women, the author now reveals their true importance. The most decisive is Sisygambis, queen-mother of Persia. Her relationship with the Macedonian conqueror proves they came to share a dream: a new world empire that would combine the genius of Cyrus the Great �nd of Alexander the Great. That multi-cultural society would have advanced women's rights by 2,000 years. All 33 "women of Alexander", from his adoptive mothers to a mysterious soothsayer, and from a Greek sex bomb to a valiant Indian queen, now are the fascinating guiding lights of this book.

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About the Author:

Robbert Bosschart (1945, the Netherlands), since 1966 foreign correspondent in Spain for the Dutch public television NOS and other international media. Also, simultaneous interpreter for the coverage of live events at CNN-Plus. As a writer, specialised in the period of Alexander the Great, and so, speaker at the 2010 Historians' Congress titled "Alexander & Darius" at Amsterdam University. Subsequently, invited as speaker at public lectures for the Alexander Exhibitions held at the Hermitage in Amsterdam, and at the Madrid exhibition centre Canal YII.

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