Transcript
Book 2, Chapter Nine: Birth Stories, Pages 219 and 220
“Before I was born,
my mother Olympias had a dream.
In her dream, her womb had been struck,
by none other —
than Zeus’s thunderbolt!
Ka-Boom!
The impact ignited a huge fire
that died as quickly as it had begun.”
Chapter Nine 219-220
Heylo! New chapter!
This chapter of birth stories is going to be fun* – I had it all written out ages ago (like the year of our Lord 2019 ages ago x_x) and it also took that long to figure out how to present the sequence in an interesting, unique way: theatrical, fantastical, brilliant artifice. I hope you will enjoy it!
*and artistically challenging lmao
Author’s Footnotes:
This birth story is among one of the many legends regarding Alexander’s birth; and how even in his mother’s belly the world was anticipating his future might over it.
What I call the “Greek version” of the birth story legends can be read in full here: https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Alexander*/3.html (Plutarch, Part 1, 2-5).
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