Why did the Alexander Romance lose cultural purchase despite being "antiquity's most successful novel?" It has gods, monsters, magic, battles, everything you could ask for.
Surpassed by The Aesop Romance.
cool, I ordered a copy
It is only a novel in the sense of the early well to do bored housewife writes a novel or modern genre fiction are also novels. Bored housewives and genrefags are not interested in antiquated forerunners of the novel, so it fell out of favor.
>>24701609In the realms of the unreal.
>>24701609They should make a movie out of it
>for centuries Europeans were brought up believing that Alexander the Great built a giant wall to seal off the nations of Gog and MagogWhy was this memoryholed?
