#  The Persian and Afghan Romance of Alexander the Great: Part II, the Seeker 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **March 22, 2016** 

 06:00PM - 07:30PM EDT 

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 **Belfer Case Study Rm, S020, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge8**  



 

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CMES and ACANSRS present

**Michael Barry**  
Lecturer, Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University

   ![Alexander the Seeker](/sites/g/files/omnuum9116/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/cmes/files/alexander-seeker.jpg?itok=XIe-pI3T) 

 

Brilliantly reflected in the medieval Persian-language epic poetry of Firdawsî and Nizâmî - illustrated by the finest miniaturists throughout the lands that are today Iran, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan and India - Alexander's encounters with different civilizations from the Nile to the Indus resulted in his mythological metamorphosis into a son of Egypt's last Pharaoh, into a worshiper of the True God in Jerusalem's Temple, into a thunder-wielding guardian of the Buddha, into the builder of an enchanted rampart in Syriac Christianity and in the Koran, and most especially into a new manifestation of the Mesopotamian hero Gilgamesh: whose spiritual initiation as far as magic horizons, and life’s limit, tragically stops at the threshold of death, barring him from attaining the Fountain of Immortality.(Dr. Barry will deliver Part I: *The Persian and Afghan Romance of Alexander the Great : Part I, the Conqueror*, at Boston University, on Monday, March 21, 6-7:30 pm, Boston University Trustees Ballroom, 1 Silber Way, 9th floor, Boston, MA. Click [here](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-persian-and-afghan-romance-of-alexander-the-great-part-i-the-conqueror-tickets-21822345222) for full information.)

**Co-sponsor:** [Association for Central Asian Civilizations and Silk Road Studies](http://acansrs.org/)  
**Contact:** [Liz Flanagan](mailto:elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu)

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