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From Cyrus to Alexander
A History of the Persian Empire
Inbunden, 2002
1375 kr
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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 …
Darius in the Shadow of Alexander
Inbunden, 2015
487 kr
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The last of Cyrus the Great’s dynastic inheritors and the legendary enemy of Alexander the Great, Darius III ruled over a Persian Empire that stretched from the Mediterranean to the Indus River. Yet, despite being the most powerful king of his time, Darius remains an obscure figure.As Pierre Briant …
First European
A History of Alexander in the Age of Empire
Inbunden, 2017
359 kr
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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 …
Alexander the Great and His Empire
A Short Introduction
Häftad, 2012
289 kr
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This is the first publication in English of Pierre Briant's classic short history of Alexander the Great's conquest of the Persian empire, from the Mediterranean to Central Asia. Eschewing a conventional biographical focus, this is the only book in any language that sets the rise of Alexander's …
Alexander the Great
The Heroic Ideal
Häftad, 1996
99 kr
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In 334 BC the twenty-two-year-old King Alexander of Macedon led his army across the Bosphorus to challenge the mighty Persian empire. Ten years later his conquests had taken him to the edge of the known world. But, as Asia Minor, Egypt and parts of India lay at his feet, Alexander was dying, his …
Alexander the Great and His Empire
A Short Introduction
E-bok, 2012
415 kr
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A classic account of Alexander the Great''s conquest and its impact on the conquered—now in English for the first time This is the first publication in English of Pierre Briant''s classic short history of Alexander the Great''s conquest of the Persian empire, from the Mediterranean to Central Asia. …
Kings, Countries, Peoples
Selected Studies on the Archaemenid Empire
E-bok, 2017
1377 kr
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Pierre Briant's work focuses particularly on the Achaemenid Empire, Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Kingdoms. For the first time a selection of articles, originally published between 1979 and 2008, is now available in an English translation. The essays, translated by Amelie Kuhrt, deal with …
Alexander den store
Pocket, 1999
155 kr
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Pierre Briant räknas som en av världens ledande auktoriteter på Alexander den store och det akemenidiska riket. Han är en fransk iranist, historiker och professor i den akemenidernas historia och kulturhistoria och Alexanders rike vid Collège de France. Briant studierade historia vid Universitetet …
