Interesting book in which the author handily address the claims and ideas behind the various immortality narratives, as he calls them. He is at his best when taking on these claims directly, and showing where they fail. For example, when talking about how theologians tie themselves in knots attem...
But there is also no doubt that he would not have come to be known as Alexander the Great were it not for an equally remarkable woman: his mother. We know Olympias only from snippets—mostly disapproving asides from male historians more concerned with chronicling the deeds of her great son. But th...