Alexander the Great is a larger-than-life historical figure, and he was truly a legend in his own time. This presentation will introduce some of the most famous tales of Alexander’s adventures in Asia and how these legends made their way from ancient Greece into medieval Europe, the Middle East, and beyond – down to the present day.
Rob Chappell enrolled at the University of Illinois as a freshman in the fall of 1986. He majored in Latin and obtained his B.A. degree in Classical Philology in May 1991 with Bronze Tablet Honors. He also completed an M.A. degree in Germanic Languages and Literatures at the U of I in May 1996. Rob began his administrative professional career in May 1997 at the UI Graduate College, where he ran its Information Office for three years. He has served as the Assistant to the Honors Dean in ACES Academic Programs since April 2000. His master’s thesis (on vampirology in a 19th-century Swiss-German novella) was published as a book in 2012, and he continues to lecture and write in his spare time.
