Newcastle University

Newcastle University's Professor Tony Spawforth examines a claim that one of the ancient world's most prolific emperors liked to dress as a Greek goddess. British Museum, London, 25 January 2013. 

In a surviving fragment of Ephippus’ ‘lost’ pamphlet, Alexander the Great’s contemporary alleges that the king liked to cross-dress as the Greek archer-goddess of the hunt. Tony Spawforth, Professor of Ancient History at Newcastle University, examines this claim, using evidence from the British Museum’s collections, and draws fascinating conclusions about Alexander’s kingship at the end of his reign and the ‘controlled misreading’ of his use of imagery by hostile contemporaries.

£5, Members/concessions £3. Please book your place on the British Museum website.

Image credit with thanks: Wally Gobetz (under Creative Commons licence).