Review of: Su Fang Ng, Alexander the Great from Britain to Southeast Asia, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019

This is a review article of a volume that presents an original comparison between the elaborations of the Alexander myth in two regions at the extremes of its vast path of Eurasian diffusion: the two peripheral archipelagos of the British Isles, characterized by the English language and predominantly Christian religion, and of South East Asia, distinguished by a wide diffusion of the Malay language and predominantly Islamic religion. Within a theoretical frame centred around the concept of connectedness of European and Asian literary cultures, the volume shows how in both these regions the myth of Alexander was used on the one hand to define one’s own imperial political identity, on the other as a cultural model of recognition of the ‘other’.