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The Treasures of Alexander the Great

Author	: Frank L. Holt
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Release Date	: 2016-03-04
ISBN 10	: 9780190469719
Pages	: 240 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (697 users)

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Download or read book The Treasures of Alexander the Great written by Frank L. Holt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War, the most profitable economic activity in the ancient world, transferred wealth from the vanquished to the victor. Invasions, sieges, massacres, annexations, and mass deportations all redistributed property with dramatic consequences for kings and commoners alike. No conqueror ever captured more people or property in so short a lifetime than Alexander the Great in the late fourth century BC. For all its savagery, the creation of Alexander's empire has generally been hailed as a positive economic event for all concerned. Even those harshly critical of Alexander today tend to praise his plundering of Persia as a means of liberating the moribund resources of the East. To test this popular interpretation, The Treasures of Alexander the Great investigates the kinds and quantities of treasure seized by the Macedonian king, from gold and silver to land and slaves. It reveals what became of the king's wealth and what Alexander's redistribution of these vast resources can tell us about his much-disputed policies and personality. Though Alexander owed his vast fortune to war, battle also distracted him from competently managing his spoils and much was wasted, embezzled, deliberately destroyed, or idled unprofitably. The Treasures of Alexander the Great provides a long-overdue and accessible account of Alexander's wealth and its enormous impact on the ancient world.

Brill's Companion to the Reception of Alexander the Great

Author	:
Publisher	: BRILL
Release Date	: 2018-09-11
ISBN 10	: 9789004359932
Pages	: 879 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (599 users)

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Download or read book Brill's Companion to the Reception of Alexander the Great written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 879 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Alexander the Great has something for everyone who is interested in the life and afterlife of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great.

Perspective in British Historical Fiction Today

Author	: Neil McEwan
Publisher	: Springer
Release Date	: 1987-06-18
ISBN 10	: 9781349082612
Pages	: 207 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (826 users)

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Download or read book Perspective in British Historical Fiction Today written by Neil McEwan and published by Springer. This book was released on 1987-06-18 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Philip and Alexander

Author	: Adrian Goldsworthy
Publisher	: Head of Zeus Ltd
Release Date	: 2020-09-03
ISBN 10	: 9781784978693
Pages	: 672 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (786 users)

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Download or read book Philip and Alexander written by Adrian Goldsworthy and published by Head of Zeus Ltd. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip and Alexander of Macedon transformed a weak kingdom in northern Greece into a globe-spanning empire. In so doing, they changed the course of history. By the end of his short life, Alexander the Great had eclipsed the power of Persia, crossed the Hindu Kush and marched into what is now Pakistan, redrawing the map of the ancient world to create an empire that stretched from the Adriatic Sea to the Indian subcontinent. But his success was not just the product of his own genius and restless energy, it was built on decades of effort by his father. History has portrayed Philip II of Macedon as an old man, one-eyed and limping, whose convenient assassination allowed Alexander the Great to come to power. However, there was far more to him than this. Through decades of hard fighting and clever diplomacy, Philip unified his country and conquered Greece. His son inherited all of this at the perfect moment and age for him to chance his luck and win greater glory. Between them, Philip and Alexander played a key role in spreading Greek language and culture over a vast area, the consequences of which were many and profound, for it led to the New Testament being written in Greek, and a Greek-speaking 'Roman' empire surviving in the eastern Mediterranean for a thousand years after the last emperor to rule from Italy. As authoritative as it is accessible, Philip and Alexander is the latest in a much-praised sequence of essential ancient histories from Adrian Goldsworthy; it is the work of a master historian at the peak of his powers.

Alexander of Macedon, 356–323 B.C.

Author	: Peter Green
Publisher	: Univ of California Press
Release Date	: 2013-01-08
ISBN 10	: 9780520954694
Pages	: 672 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (546 users)

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Download or read book Alexander of Macedon, 356–323 B.C. written by Peter Green and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until recently, popular biographers and most scholars viewed Alexander the Great as a genius with a plan, a romantic figure pursuing his vision of a united world. His dream was at times characterized as a benevolent interest in the brotherhood of man, sometimes as a brute interest in the exercise of power. Green, a Cambridge-trained classicist who is also a novelist, portrays Alexander as both a complex personality and a single-minded general, a man capable of such diverse expediencies as patricide or the massacre of civilians. Green describes his Alexander as "not only the most brilliant (and ambitious) field commander in history, but also supremely indifferent to all those administrative excellences and idealistic yearnings foisted upon him by later generations, especially those who found the conqueror, tout court, a little hard upon their liberal sensibilities." This biography begins not with one of the universally known incidents of Alexander's life, but with an account of his father, Philip of Macedonia, whose many-territoried empire was the first on the continent of Europe to have an effectively centralized government and military. What Philip and Macedonia had to offer, Alexander made his own, but Philip and Macedonia also made Alexander form an important context for understanding Alexander himself. Yet his origins and training do not fully explain the man. After he was named hegemon of the Hellenic League, many philosophers came to congratulate Alexander, but one was conspicuous by his absence: Diogenes the Cynic, an ascetic who lived in a clay tub. Piqued and curious, Alexander himself visited the philosopher, who, when asked if there was anything Alexander could do for him, made the famous reply, "Don't stand between me and the sun." Alexander's courtiers jeered, but Alexander silenced them: "If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes." This remark was as unexpected in Alexander as it would be in a modern leader. For the general reader, the book, redolent with gritty details and fully aware of Alexander's darker side, offers a gripping tale of Alexander's career. Full backnotes, fourteen maps, and chronological and genealogical tables serve readers with more specialized interests.

Alexander the Great: The Invisible Enemy

Author	: J M O'Brien
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2003-09-02
ISBN 10	: 9781134845002
Pages	: 360 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (45 users)

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Download or read book Alexander the Great: The Invisible Enemy written by J M O'Brien and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite Alexander the Great's unprecedented accomplishments, during the last seven years of his life, this indomitable warrior became increasingly unpredictable, sporadically violent, megalomaniacal, and suspicious of friends as well as enemies. What could have caused such a lamentable transformation? This biography seeks to answer that question by assessing the role of alcohol in Alexander the Great's life, using the figure of Dionysus as a symbol of its destructive effects on his psyche. The unique methodology employed in this book explores various aspects of Alexander's life while maintaining an historical framework. The exposition of the main theme is handled in such a way that the biography will appeal to general readers as well as scholars.

Alexander's Marshals

Author	: Waldemar Heckel
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2016-08-05
ISBN 10	: 9781317389224
Pages	: 398 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (892 users)

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Download or read book Alexander's Marshals written by Waldemar Heckel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This substantially revised and updated second edition of The Marshals of Alexander’s Empire (1992) examines Alexander’s most important officers, who commanded army units and were involved in military and political deliberations. Chapters on these men have been expanded, giving greater attention to personalities, bias in the sources, and the social as well as military setting, including more on familial connections and regional origins in an attempt to create a better understanding of factions. The major confrontations, military and political, are treated in greater detail within the biographies, and a discussion of the organization and command structure of the Makedonian army has been added.

From Cyrus to Alexander

Author	: Pierre Briant
Publisher	: Penn State Press
Release Date	: 2002-06-23
ISBN 10	: 9781575065748
Pages	: 1217 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (657 users)

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Download or read book From Cyrus to Alexander written by Pierre Briant and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2002-06-23 with total page 1217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around 550 B.C.E. the Persian people—who were previously practically unknown in the annals of history—emerged from their base in southern Iran (Fars) and engaged in a monumental adventure that, under the leadership of Cyrus the Great and his successors, culminated in the creation of an immense Empire that stretched from central Asia to Upper Egypt, from the Indus to the Danube. The Persian (or Achaemenid, named for its reigning dynasty) Empire assimilated an astonishing diversity of lands, peoples, languages, and cultures. This conquest of Near Eastern lands completely altered the history of the world: for the first time, a monolithic State as vast as the future Roman Empire arose, expanded, and matured in the course of more than two centuries (530–330) and endured until the death of Alexander the Great (323), who from a geopolitical perspective was “the last of the Achaemenids.” Even today, the remains of the Empire-the terraces, palaces, reliefs, paintings, and enameled bricks of Pasargadae, Persepolis, and Susa; the impressive royal tombs of Naqsh-i Rustam; the monumental statue of Darius the Great-serve to remind visitors of the power and unprecedented luxury of the Great Kings and their loyal courtiers (the “Faithful Ones”). Though long eclipsed and overshadowed by the towering prestige of the “ancient Orient” and “eternal Greece,” Achaemenid history has emerged into fresh light during the last two decades. Freed from the tattered rags of “Oriental decadence” and “Asiatic stagnation,” research has also benefited from a continually growing number of discoveries that have provided important new evidence-including texts, as well as archaeological, numismatic, and iconographic artifacts. The evidence that this book assembles is voluminous and diverse: the citations of ancient documents and of the archaeological evidence permit the reader to follow the author in his role as a historian who, across space and time, attempts to understand how such an Empire emerged, developed, and faded. Though firmly grounded in the evidence, the author’s discussions do not avoid persistent questions and regularly engages divergent interpretations and alternative hypotheses. This book is without precedent or equivalent, and also offers an exhaustive bibliography and thorough indexes. The French publication of this magisterial work in 1996 was acclaimed in newspapers and literary journals. Now Histoire de l’Empire Perse: De Cyrus a Alexandre is translated in its entirety in a revised edition, with the author himself reviewing the translation, correcting the original edition, and adding new documentation. Pierre Briant, Chaire Histoire et civilisation du monde achémenide et de l’empire d’Alexandre, Collège de France, is a specialist in the history of the Near East during the era of the Persian Empire and the conquests of Alexander. He is the author of numerous books. Peter T. Daniels, the translator, is an independent scholar, editor, and translator who studied at Cornell University and the University of Chicago. He lives and works in New York City.

Calmet's Great Dictionary of the Holy Bible: Calmet's great dictionary ... A-J

Author	: Augustin Calmet
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1812
ISBN 10	: UCAL:C2816531
Pages	: 670 pages
Rating	: 4.C/5 (165 users)

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Alexander Histories and Iranian Reflections

Author	: Parivash Jamzadeh
Publisher	: BRILL
Release Date	: 2012-08-17
ISBN 10	: 9789004217461
Pages	: 204 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (174 users)

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Download or read book Alexander Histories and Iranian Reflections written by Parivash Jamzadeh and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-08-17 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parivash Jamzadeh demonstrates how the propaganda material used during Alexander the Great’s military campaign to conquer the Achaemenid empire shows multiple layers of Iranian influences. She also shows that the studied sources do not always offer an accurate account of the contemporary Iranian customs and occasionally included historical inaccuracies.

Fire from Heaven

Author	: Mary Renault
Publisher	: National Geographic Books
Release Date	: 2002-06-11
ISBN 10	: 9780375726828
Pages	: 0 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (268 users)

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Download or read book Fire from Heaven written by Mary Renault and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2002-06-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander’s beauty, strength, and defiance were apparent from birth, but his boyhood honed those gifts into the makings of a king. His mother, Olympias, and his father, King Philip of Macedon, fought each other for their son’s loyalty, teaching Alexander politics and vengeance from the cradle. His love for the youth Hephaistion taught him trust, while Aristotle’s tutoring provoked his mind and Homer’s Iliad fueled his aspirations. Killing his first man in battle at the age of twelve, he became regent at sixteen and commander of Macedon’s cavalry at eighteen, so that by the time his father was murdered, Alexander’s skills had grown to match his fiery ambition.

Calmet's Great Dictionary of the Holy Bible

Author	: Augustin Calmet
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1812
ISBN 10	: HARVARD:HN2KKU
Pages	: 678 pages
Rating	: 4.R/5 (2 users)

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Download or read book Calmet's Great Dictionary of the Holy Bible written by Augustin Calmet and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

2 Maccabees

Author	: Daniel R. Schwartz
Publisher	: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date	: 2008-12-10
ISBN 10	: 9783110211207
Pages	: 627 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (112 users)

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Download or read book 2 Maccabees written by Daniel R. Schwartz and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2 Maccabees is a Jewish work composed during the 2nd century BCE and preserved by the Church. Written in Hellenistic Greek and told from a Jewish-Hellenistic perspective, 2 Maccabees narrates and interprets the ups and downs of events that took place in Jerusalem prior to and during the Maccabean revolt: institutionalized Hellenization and the foundation of Jerusalem as a polis; the persecution of Jews by Antiochus Epiphanes, accompanied by famous martyrdoms; and the rebellion against Seleucid rule by Judas Maccabaeus. 2 Maccabees is an important source both for the events it describes and for the values and interests of the Judaism of the Hellenistic diaspora that it reflects - which are often quite different from those represented by its competitor, 1 Maccabees.

The Golden Bough

Author	: James George Frazer
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Release Date	: 2012-04-26
ISBN 10	: 9781108047319
Pages	: 435 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (473 users)

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Download or read book The Golden Bough written by James George Frazer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greatly revised and enlarged twelve-volume third edition (1911-15) of Sir James Frazer's controversial work on classical religion.

The Marshals of Alexander's Empire

Author	: Alice Heckel
Publisher	: Psychology Press
Release Date	: 1992
ISBN 10	: 0415050537
Pages	: 456 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (37 users)

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Download or read book The Marshals of Alexander's Empire written by Alice Heckel and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

A Chronology of Ancient Greece

Author	: Timothy Venning
Publisher	: Pen and Sword
Release Date	: 2015-11-30
ISBN 10	: 9781473879232
Pages	: 320 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (792 users)

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Download or read book A Chronology of Ancient Greece written by Timothy Venning and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a coherent narrative of the politico-military history of ancient Greece. It commences with the necessarily approximate course of events in Bronze and early Iron Age, as estimated by the most reliable scholarship plus the legendary accounts of this period. From the Persian Wars onwards, a year-by-year chronology is constructed from the ancient historical sources. Where possible a day-by-day narrative is given. The geographical scope expands as the horizons of the Greek world and colonization expanded with reference to developments in politico-military events in the Middle Eastern (and later Italian) states that came into contact with Greek culture. From the expansion of the Greek world across the region under Alexander, the development of all the relevant Greek/Macedonian states is covered. The text is divided into events per geographical area for each date, cross-referencing where needed. Detailed accounts are provided for battles and political crises where the sources allow this, and where not much is known for certain the different opinions of historians are referenced en route. The result is a coherent, accessible and accurate reference to what happened and when.

Alexander

Author	: Guy Maclean Rogers
Publisher	: Random House
Release Date	: 2004-11-02
ISBN 10	: 9781588364135
Pages	: 464 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (641 users)

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Download or read book Alexander written by Guy Maclean Rogers and published by Random House. This book was released on 2004-11-02 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly two and a half millennia, Alexander the Great has loomed over history as a legend–and an enigma. Wounded repeatedly but always triumphant in battle, he conquered most of the known world, only to die mysteriously at the age of thirty-two. In his day he was revered as a god; in our day he has been reviled as a mass murderer, a tyrant as brutal as Stalin or Hitler. Who was the man behind the mask of power? Why did Alexander embark on an unprecedented program of global domination? What accounted for his astonishing success on the battlefield? In this luminous new biography, the esteemed classical scholar and historian Guy MacLean Rogers sifts through thousands of years of history and myth to uncover the truth about this complex, ambiguous genius. Ascending to the throne of Macedonia after the assassination of his father, King Philip II, Alexander discovered while barely out of his teens that he had an extraordinary talent and a boundless appetite for military conquest. A virtuoso of violence, he was gifted with an uncanny ability to visualize how a battle would unfold, coupled with devastating decisiveness in the field. Granicus, Issos, Gaugamela, Hydaspes–as the victories mounted, Alexander’s passion for conquest expanded from cities to countries to continents. When Persia, the greatest empire of his day, fell before him, he marched at once on India, intending to add it to his holdings. As Rogers shows, Alexander’s military prowess only heightened his exuberant sexuality. Though his taste for multiple partners, both male and female, was tolerated, Alexander’s relatively enlightened treatment of women was nothing short of revolutionary. He outlawed rape, he placed intelligent women in positions of authority, and he chose his wives from among the peoples he conquered. Indeed, as Rogers argues, Alexander’s fascination with Persian culture, customs, and sexual practices may have led to his downfall, perhaps even to his death. Alexander emerges as a charismatic and surprisingly modern figure–neither a messiah nor a genocidal butcher but one of the most imaginative and daring military tacticians of all time. Balanced and authoritative, this brilliant portrait brings Alexander to life as a man, without diminishing the power of the legend.