Good day everyone, I’m Elena and thank you for being on Alessandro III di Macedonia- the resource on Alexander the Great and Hellenism!
Today I’m bringing you the release of another interesting book, this time an anthology, but I’ll have to wait for the paperback edition. The book in question is:
The Intersectional Alexander the Great. Receptions and Representations in Greece and the Wider Hellenistic Continuum
by Kenneth Royce Moore (Anthology Editor)
Bloomsbury, Available 01 Oct 2026
Surveying a diverse range of topics in relation to Alexander the Great and his legacy, this book offers innovative approaches and interpretations to our historical understanding of this controversial figure in both the ancient and modern periods. A study of Alexander the Great draws in many themes such as race, sex, class, gender, disability and ethnicity, all of which are examined in this volume. This intersectional study brings the history and the impact of the Alexander legend into dialogue to show that there is never just ‘one Alexander’, but a myriad of lives and receptions.
Unlike many other studies on Alexander, this volume focuses on both the ‘elite’ – Arrian, Plutarch, Curtius Rufus, Diodorus Siculus and the Greek Alexander Romance tradition – and ‘non-elite’ narratives, such as the histories and ‘folk’ tales found in the Asiatic traditions. Rather than attempting to yield a greater understanding of the historical figure of Alexander, this volume argues that the varied collections of narratives from across the world and throughout history hold up a mirror to their respective ages, and also to the social classes from which they are derived. By using Alexander as a prism, we can better understand the social, political and religious attitudes of subsequent historical periods.
Kenneth Royce Moore is Senior Lecturer in the History of Ideas at Teesside University, UK. He is the editor of Routledge’s Companion to the Reception of Ancient Greek and Roman Gender and Sexuality (2023) and Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Alexander the Great (2018). He is the author of Plato Politics and a Practical Utopia (Bloomsbury Academic, 2012) and Sex and the Second-Best City (2005).
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Introduction
K.R. Moore, Teesside University, UK
Chapter 1. Parasocial Relationships in Elite and Non-Elite Receptions of the Macedonian Conqueror: Alexander the Great as Speculum Mundi
K.R. Moore, Teesside University, UK
Chapter 2. Human-Divine Hybridity: Gender, Ethnic and Animal Entanglements in the Mythmaking of Olympias and Alexander
Larissa Tittl, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Chapter 3. Calanus is ‘Alexander too’: The Retelling of Alexander’s Indian Campaign in Kostas Arkoudeas’ Historical Romance
Guendalina Daniela Maria Taietti. University of Liverpool, UK
Chapter 4. Candace in the Malay Alexander Romance
Su Fang Ng, Virginia Tech, USA
Chapter 5. Alexander’s Persian Boy: Constructions of Bagoas and Alexander
Lara O’Sullivan, University of Western Australia, Australia
Chapter 6. Gender, Class, and Ethnicity: Reading Women’s Experiences of Alexander’s Campaigns
Dylan James, University of Reading, UK
Chapter 7. Sexuality and Class in the Reign of Alexander
Stephen Harrison, University of Swansea, UK
Chapter 8. Class Struggle in Babylon: Political Conflict and Regime Control on the Death of Alexander
John R. Holton, Newcastle University, UK
Chapter 9. Mirror, Mirror: Alexander the Great, Disability, and Depictions of Greco-Egyptian Deities as Macedonian Soldiers
Alexandra F. Morris, University of Lincoln, UK
Chapter 10. Disability in the times of Alexander III – Views and Perceptions
Sabine Müller, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Chapter 11. The Impact of Religious Beliefs on the Exercise of Power by Alexander and his Family
Andrew Michael Chugg, Independent Researcher, UK
Chapter 12. Age and Ageing in Alexander the Great’s Reception
Jaakkojuhani Peltonen, Tampere University, Finland
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Editions:
Hardback
Edition 1st
Pages 272
ISBN 978-1350468306
Illustrations 12 bw illus
Dimensions 234 x 156 mm
£ 90.00 – 107,10€
Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Pages 272
ISBN 978-1350468313
Illustrations 12 bw illus
£ 81.00
Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Pages 272
ISBN 978-1350468320
Illustrations 12 bw illus
£ 81.00
The anthology promises to be interesting, and it certainly is, but it focuses on a very specific aspect of Alexander the Great and won’t appeal to the general public or those who want to delve deeper into him for the first time. I’ll definitely look into picking it up in due time!
Have a good day, Elena
Alessandro III di Macedonia 