Description: Places Alexander the Great and his monarchical ideology within his Near-Eastern context.
Brief description: Stephen Harrison is a Lecturer in Ancient History at Swansea University. Before moving to Swansea in 2016, he completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Alexander the Great: Lives and Legacies (Reaktion Books, 2025), and the co-editor (with Dylan James) of Theorising Comparative History for the Ancient Mediterranean: Asking New Questions of Old Evidence (Liverpool University Press, 2025).