Alexander the Great comes to Naples (Le Monde diplomatique

On this month’s podcast, culture critic Maya Jaggi talks about an exhibition currently on at the National Museum of Archaeology Naples (MANN), which she reviews in the July issue of Le Monde diplomatique in a piece entitled ‘Alexander the Great, between Asia and Europe’.

As Alexander the Great pushed ever further east in the late 4th century BCE, his aim was conquest. But the result was much more than that: it also brought cultural exchange, unexpected encounters and the sharing of learning. All of which are explored in the exhibition in Naples: a salutary reminder, as Maya describes it, of the value of interconnectedness in today’s Europe.