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Catherine Broadbent
When Catherine was given a silver tetradrachm of Alexander the Great on her wedding day, little did she know then that the fascination of this coin would set her off on a lifetime’s discovery of Al...view moreWhen Catherine was given a silver tetradrachm of Alexander the Great on her wedding day, little did she know then that the fascination of this coin would set her off on a lifetime’s discovery of Alexander the Macedonian King who conquered the known world in his lifetime and entered the legends of countries throughout the world, including Malaysia. It was discovering the Malay texts in Bahasa Indonesia through a 1930s edition of De Maleische Alexanderroman by the Dutch scholar van Leeuwen that prompted her desire to make this Malay story accessible to people today by rendering it into English. Eirene Mutto and Sudeshni Iachimpadi did sterling work in interpreting the old Indonesian text and turning it for the first time into English.view less