Since his death in the third century BC, each age has woven its own legends around the figure of Alexander the Great.
If the Hebrew tradition saw him as a preacher and prophet, to the Persians he was alternately a true king and an arch-Satan, while in modern Greece he is revered more as a wise man than as a conqueror.
All these very disparate traditions share roots in The Greek Alexander Romance .
One of the most influential works of late classical Greek literature, it re.