
Alexander the Great from Britain to Southeast Asia: Peripheral Empires in the Global Renaissance
By Su Fang Ng (NHC Fellow, 2007–08) No figure has had a more global impact than Alexander the Great, whose legends have encircled the globe and been translated into a dizzying multitude of languages, from Indo-European and Semitic to Turkic and Austronesian. Alexander the Great from Britain to Southeast Asia examines parallel traditions of the Alexander Romance in Britain … Continued