Coin showing early allegations for Alexander’s divine origin
(Picture: Trustees of the British Museum)Think Alexander the Great and it may be Oliver Stone’s Alexander – Colin Farrell – who comes to mind. That was exciting enough, despite the wig, but it simply pales in comparison with the infinitely various forms his legend took during his life and after it – the focus of this new exhibition at the British Library.
Alexander it was who defeated the Persian empire of Darius and conquered territory as far as India, in a seven year campaign that took him to the edge of the known world. In fact, he really wanted to go right to the end of the world but his spoilsport army mutinied; they wanted to go back home.
