content: This book did not get published. This author can't be trusted. The book is based on appalling inaccuracies.Alexander the Great galloping into Alexandria & plundering the royal library? Really?Alexander FOUNDED the city of Alexandria. He & his men built the city from the dirt up. Ptolemy (a general in Alexander's army who later became the Pharoah of Egypt) created the royal library after Alexander's death. Aristotle had nothing to do with it.No doubt Persia, Egypt & Greece / Macedonia had much intermingling of myth, religion & philosophy. That's obvious! However, an examination into the way these cultures influenced one another needs to be found in another book by another writer. Since this guy clearly does not know what he's talking about.