Atheists—and that’s nearly everyone in my neck of the woods—might see the title of Quintus Curtius’s latest triumph and be tempted to shuffle along. The gods? Their “nature”? Isn’t that something for ...

Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), who led the Macedonian army to victory in Egypt, Syria, Persia and India, was perhaps the most successful conqueror the world has ever seen. Yet although no other ...