Monomyth reading of Alexander images

Historically, the desire for eternality, immortality, and attempt for liberation from death has been one of the most important intellectual concerns of human being. Man constantly has produced fictions in response to this desire, and symbolized this desire in the form of narratives, religious and mythical characteristics, legendary heroes, and various literary and artistic genres. Among most important artistic expressions in quest for eternality in Persian-Islamic culture and resources is the Alexander story and its imagery. This paper would attempt through comparison of images of quest for eternality in Alexander story with Campbell theory of Monomyth (the pattern during which the hero passes through the stages of Separation, Initiation, and Return) to address the classification of standpoints of narrators of this narrative about the quest for eternality, in addition to collecting created images in different imagery resources. In the meantime, through examination of descriptive variables some results are obtained including that in some parts of the story especially in military expeditions there are images in conformity with Campbell cycle, but at the end of this story Alexander does not return according to the cycle, and revitalizes in that special world and reaches to the alteration. So we witness the least amount of conformity with the pattern.