Review of Amitay, Alexander the Great in Jerusalem

BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Alexander the Great in Jerusalem: myth and history.

Ory Amitay, Alexander the Great in Jerusalem: myth and history. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 220. ISBN 9780198929529.

Review by
Jodi Magness, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. magness@email.unc.edu

This book is only marginally concerned with whether Alexander the Great ever visited Jerusalem—an historical question that Ory Amitay ultimately leaves unanswered. Instead, it is mostly about stories describing a visit by Alexander to Jerusalem, which were composed at different times and in different places. Amitay examines four main versions of these stories ...

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