Alexander the Great in Jerusalem

Ory Amitay is Senior Lecturer at the University of Haifa where he has been teaching Ancient History since 2003. He studied Ancient History at Tel-Aviv University and completed his graduate studies in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of California, Berkeley. His academic focus is on the meeting points of myth and history, in particular in cases of inter-cultural exchange, and he has previously published on the mythology and history of Alexander the Great.