Alexander's Empire
Author: John Pentland Mahaffy
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Published: 1887
Total Pages: 366
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Author: John Pentland Mahaffy
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Published: 1887
Total Pages: 366
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Waldemar Heckel
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-10-26
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 1134942656
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents for the first time in English a detailed study of the closest friends and most trusted commanders of Alexander the Great - their career-progress, their rivalry with one another, and their influence on Alexander. The Marshals of Alexander's Empire is a blend of biography and prosopography that sheds light on some of the most dynamic individuals of the age of Alexander.
Author: Robin Waterfield
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012-10-11
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 0199931526
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA gripping account of one of the great forgotten wars of history, revealing how Alexander the Great's vast empire was torn asunder in the years after his death
Author: Pierre Briant
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2017-01-02
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 0674972864
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“A truly remarkable forgotten chapter of European intellectual history, laid out with passion and integrity.” (The Wall Street Journal) The exploits of Alexander the Great were so remarkable that for centuries after his death the Macedonian ruler seemed a figure more of legend than of history. Thinkers of the European Enlightenment, searching for ancient models to understand contemporary affairs, were the first to critically interpret Alexander’s achievements. As Pierre Briant shows, in the minds of eighteenth-century intellectuals and philosophers, Alexander was the first European: a successful creator of empire who opened the door to new sources of trade and scientific knowledge, and an enlightened leader who brought the fruits of Western civilization to an oppressed and backward “Orient.” In France, Scotland, England, and Germany, Alexander the Great became an important point of reference in discourses from philosophy and history to political economy and geography. Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Robertson asked what lessons Alexander’s empire-building had to teach modern Europeans. They saw the ancient Macedonian as the embodiment of the rational and benevolent Western ruler, a historical model to be emulated as Western powers accelerated their colonial expansion into Asia, India, and the Middle East. “This important work. . . . confirms once more that the life-trajectory of the Macedonian conqueror remains an inexhaustible cultural resource.” —Sanjay Subrahmanyam, University of California, Los Angeles, author of Empires Between Islam and Christianity
Author: Debra Skelton
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 1604131624
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume looks at what made Alexander a brilliant military tactician and a charismatic leader. It also explores what the Eastern world learned through contact with Alexander, and what Alexander brought to the West from the Persian Empire.
Author: Pierre Briant
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2010-07-21
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 0691141940
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a short history of Alexander the Great's conquest of the Persian empire, from the Mediterranean to Central Asia. This book sets the rise of Alexander's short-lived empire within the broad context of ancient Near Eastern history under Achaemenid Persian rule, as well as against Alexander's Macedonian background.
Author: Waldemar Heckel
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2008-04-15
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 1405154691
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContaining over 800 biographies of individuals known from the literary and epigraphic sources for the age of Alexander, this book features entries ranging from leading commanders in Alexander's army to the nobles and regional leaders of the Persian empire whom he encountered on his epic campaign.
Author: John Pentland Mahaffy
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Published: 1887
Total Pages: 16
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Published: 1888
Total Pages: 370
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John D Grainger
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2009-08-11
Total Pages: 514
ISBN-13: 082644394X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this authoritative book John Grainger explores the foundations of Alexander's empire and why it did not survive after his untimely death in 323 BC.