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Culling ancient works from the Asia Society’s collection, Rina Banerjee, Howardena Pindell, and Byron Kim look to the past to challenge ideas of identity and authenticity.

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The Wars of Alexander's successors, were a series of conflicts that erupted among the generals of Alexander the Great.