Alexander Macedonian, or Roman about God

Maurice Druon, the reading public knows primarily from the saga “Cursed Kings”, which revealed the gloomy secrets of the Middle Ages, and the “End of People” trilogy, telling about the back of the European Society of the first decades of the twentieth century, about the sunset of the dynasty of financiers and industrialists.
Alexander the Great, who lived for thirty-three years, was considered some priests on both sides of the Mediterranean Sea was considered the son of Zeus-Amon. The Egyptians crowned him with the crown of the pharaoh, and the Babylonians - the royal Tiara. The Jews saw in him one of the lord of the world, the harbinger of the Messiah. Some peoples of India embodied its features in the image of the Buddha. Ancient Christians ranked Alexander to the host of saints. Islam took him a place in the pantheon of his heroes under the name Iskander. The contemporaries of Alexander constantly asked the question: He is a man or God? In his novel, Maurice Dryon tried to recreate the image of the closest adviser to the conqueror, restore the course of thoughts of the favorite and wrote memoirs that could belong to the pen of the great ruler