Alexander _ The God King Documentary _ Son of Zeus

"""I have wrestled with Thanatos knee to knee and I know how death is vanquished. Man's immortality is not to live forever; for that wish is born of fear. Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.”
― Mary Renault, Fire from Heaven

Alexander wanted to rival Perseus and Heracles, since he was descended from them both, and was also seeking to trace his birth back to Ammon, just as mythology traces that of Heracles and Perseus to Zeus. He therefore set out for Ammon in this frame of mind, with the intention of finding out more exactly about his origins, or of claiming he had found out.
Hellenistic Culture and the influence of Greek language, philosophy and culture on Jews and early Christians. Hellenism, refers to the spread of Greek culture that had begun after the conquest of Alexander the Great in the fourth century, B.C.E.The conquest by Alexander, which brought Greek culture to the middle eastern territories. And then, subsequent to that, the Roman imperial expansion.

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin


Achilles and Alexander the Great - Age of Heroes
Buried beneath post modernism, the enlightenment, the reformation, and Monotheism is the time where Gods were Warriors and Warriors were Gods. Where Courage was the ultimate virtue that made all other virtues possible.

“Courage is the first of human virtues because it makes all others possible.”
Aristotle

""The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.""
Epicurus

The Iliad is essentially about the question what it means to be an aristocrat: one has to be a brave warrior, one has to be pious, one has to be generous, and most of all, a leader.

"" we'll stand in the Lycian front ranks
and meet head on the blazing fires of battle,
so then some well-armed Lycian will say,
'They're not unworthy, those men who rule Lycia,
those kings of ours. It's true they eat plump sheep
and drink the best sweet wines - but they are strong,
fine men, who fight in the Lycians' front ranks.'
Ah my friend, if we could escape this war,
and live forever, without growing old,
if we were ageless, then I'd not fight on
in the foremost ranks, nor would I send you
to those wars where men win glory. But now,
a thousand shapes of fatal death confront us,
which no mortal man can flee from or avoid.
So let's go forward, to give the glory
to another man or win it for ourselves.""

[Iliad, 12.307-330

Soldier, Priest, and God: A Life of Alexander the Great
Whatever we may think of Alexander--whether Great or only lucky, a civilizer or a sociopath--most people do not regard him as a religious leader. And yet religion permeated all aspects of his career. When he used religion astutely, he and his army prospered. In Egypt, he performed the ceremonies needed to be pharaoh, and thus became a god as well as a priest. Babylon surrendered to him partly because he agreed to become a sacred king.

Alexander the great documentary - When men were gods
Divine men in history

Alexander's relationship with the ancient deity known as Zeus-Ammon is one of the great mysteries of his life.
Zeus was considered the ruler of the Olympian gods in ancient Greece and Macedon. Amun, called ""Ammon"" in Greece, was the parallel ""king of the gods"" in the religion of ancient Egypt.
By Alexander's time, Zeus-Ammon was a well-known deity in Greece - basically a hybrid of these two chief gods."