Alexander Destiny and Myth |
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Author:
| Mossé, Claude |
Translator:
| Lloyd, Janet |
Foreword by:
| Cartledge, Paul |
ISBN: | 978-0-8018-7995-1 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2004 |
Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | AUD $133.00 |
Book Description:
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Few figures from history have aroused as much admiration as Alexander the Great, the Macedonian king who, between 334 and 323 B.C., conquered the immense Persian Empire, led his army as far as India, and transformed the known world. Even in antiquity, he was an almost mythical hero, and over the centuries he has been remembered as the paragon of ......
Few figures from history have aroused as much admiration as Alexander the Great, the Macedonian king who, between 334 and 323 B.C., conquered the immense Persian Empire, led his army as far as India, and transformed the known world. Even in antiquity, he was an almost mythical hero, and over the centuries he has been remembered as the paragon of ......