Dr. Ng,
Okay, Rifat, but I 'm not sure this really answers the question as this feels more like a panegyric to Alexander the Great. So your passage does talk about how Alexander saw himself or used the message from the Temple of Ammon to make himself son of a god but why do this? Was he a demi-god then and why use that motif? What possible advantage did he get out of it? Thank you for your insights and questions. As I told Josh, If I am not understood about what Alexander the Great felt himself as a Greek hero an eastern style king, or a god, I said that he felt himself a half human and a half god. In my forum response, I stated my idea about what Alexander the Great felt about himself. He felt a demi-god. Here’s my source states that Alexander the
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Also, although he was actually considered as a perfect leader, a commander, a general, and a king, “in Egypt, he had been proclaimed the son of Zeus.” It is a good question that is why he felt like that. Why did he feel himself some sort of a god? Maybe, it is because of his achievements. But, there are some great leaders and commanders in history that they had many achievements, but most of them did not feel themselves as a god or a demi-god. Therefore, Alexander’s feeling about acting like a god or a demi-god may be considered as a psychological disorder. Maybe, we can focus on Alexander’s psychological situation to understand better on the issue. Peter Green gives a lot of information about Alexander the Great in his book Alexander of Macedon: 356-323 B. C.: A