Alexander's Empire
Author | : John Pentland Mahaffy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : Greece |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John Pentland Mahaffy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : Greece |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Waldemar Heckel |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2005-10-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134942656 |
This 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 | : Debra Skelton |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Generals |
ISBN | : 1604131624 |
This 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 | : A. B. Bosworth |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1993-03-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107717256 |
This book is an exploration of the process and consequences of the campaigns of Alexander the Great of Macedon (who reigned from 336 to 323 BC), focusing on the effect of his monarchy upon the world of his day. A detailed running narrative of the actual campaigns from the Danube to the Indus is complemented and enlarged upon by thematic studies on the reaction in Greece to Macedonian suzerainty, the administration of the empire, the evolution of the Macedonian army and its role as the instrument of conquest, and on the origins of the ruler cult.
Author | : Pierre Briant |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2017-01-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674972864 |
“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 | : Pierre Briant |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2010-07-21 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0691141940 |
Presents 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 | : Robin Waterfield |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2012-10-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0199931526 |
A 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 | : John Pentland Mahaffy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : Greece |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Waldemar Heckel |
Publisher | : Claremont, Calif. : Regina Books |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
"The subject of Alexander continues to fascinate, not only because it is controversial, but also because it is recognized to be relevant to us, especially in light of recent and current world events. This collection of eleven studies is noteworthy for its chronological range, from the time of Dion of Syracuse in the mid-fourth century to that of Antigonus and his son Demetrius Poliorcetes in the early third century, and for its variety of topics, from the extravagant honors for Dion at Syracuse to the Alexander-coinage of the Besieger at Tyre. The leitmotiv, however, is Alexander the Great, with six essays dealing with him directly, and the remaining five doing so at least tangentially."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author | : Waldemar Heckel |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1405154691 |
Containing 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.