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Alexander the Great: The True Face of a Hero

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Mon, Aug 29, 2022

7 PM – 8:30 PM CDT (GMT-5)

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The Professor Diane Touliatos Endowed Annual Lecture in Greek Historical Studies
Alexander the Great: The True Face of a Hero
Presented by Professor Standis Apostolidis, Ionios School, Athens, Greece
Reception: 7 p.m.; Lecture: 7:30 p.m.
Monday, August 29, 2022, Century Room A, Millennium Student Center
University of Missouri-St. Louis
This event is free and open to the public!

“Every era has its own Alexander”!

Over the centuries, historians’ views of Alexander the Great have oscillated from the extreme positive, a sort of bright star illuminating the world, to extreme negative, a black hole of destruction. On the one hand, Alexander has been presented as a hideous and degenerate warlord, thirsty for power and obsessed with the idea that he was a god, a force of darkness bringing death and destruction wherever he went. On the other, he has been seen as a brave visionary of a new civilized world, in which people live in peace and prosperity, without national or racial discrimination.