Guy MacLean Rogers

Guy MacLean Rogers is Mildred Lane Kemper Professor of Classics and History at Wellesley College. Professor Rogers’ research has focused upon ancient religion and warfare. His books include The Sacred Identity of Ephesos: Foundation Myths of a Roman City, which was awarded the Routledge Ancient History Prize, and most recently, The Mysteries of Artemis of Ephesos: Cult, Polis and Change in the Graeco-Roman World (Yale University Press, 2012). His biography Alexander: The Ambiguity of Greatness was published by Random House in 2004 and has been translated into Russian and Greek. In 1997 he was a Senior Visiting Fellow at All Souls College Oxford and in 2003 he received the Perennial Wisdom Medal.

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Was Alexander Great? The Life, Leadership, and Legacies of History’s Greatest Warrior (edX)

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Was Alexander Great? If so, how? If not, why not? This course explores the life, leadership, and legacies of history’s greatest warrior. Alexander the Great conquered most of the world known to the ancient Greeks, fused the eastern and western peoples of his empire, and became a god – [...]