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Alexander The Great
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Author : Jacob Abbott
language : en
Publisher: BookRix
Release Date : 2019-06-15
Alexander The Great written by Jacob Abbott and has been published by BookRix this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Alexander the Great was a king of the Greek kingdom of Macedon. Born in Pella in 356 BC, Alexander succeeded his father, Philip II, to the throne at the age of twenty. He spent most of his ruling years on an unprecedented military campaign through Asia and northeast Africa, until by the age of thirty he had created one of the largest empires of the ancient world, stretching from Greece to Egypt and into present-day Pakistan. He was undefeated in battle and is considered one of history's most successful commanders. Alexander's legacy includes the cultural diffusion his conquests engendered. He founded some twenty cities that bore his name, most notably Alexandria in Egypt. Alexander's settlement of Greek colonists and the resulting spread of Greek culture in the east resulted in a new Hellenistic civilization, aspects of which were still evident in the traditions of the Byzantine Empire in the mid-15th century. Alexander became legendary as a classical hero in the mold of Achilles, and he features prominently in the history and myth of Greek and non-Greek cultures. He became the measure against which military leaders compared themselves, and military academies throughout the world still teach his tactics.
On The Shores Of The Great Sea Serapis Classics
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Author : M. B. Synge
language : en
Publisher: Serapis Classics
Release Date : 2017-10-01
On The Shores Of The Great Sea Serapis Classics written by M. B. Synge and has been published by Serapis Classics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-01 with History categories.
It is strange to think of a very old world, when men knew nothing of the great salt sea that washed their shores, and nothing of the wonderful lands, that lay beyond. Each day the sun rose and set as it does to-day, but they did not know the reason why: the rivers flowed through the land, but they did not know whence they came, or whither they went. These men of old, knew one great fact. They knew that they must live in a land, where there was plenty of water. How else could their sheep and oxen stay their thirst? how else should they and their children get food and drink? and how should the grain grow to save the land from famine? So wherever a man settled down with his family in the old days, he chose some place near a river or spring. Perhaps others would wander over the land till they came to the same river, and there they would settle too, until there would be quite a little colony of families all attracted to the same spot by the fact that fresh, clean water, was flowing through the land. And so it was that, long ago, the old stories tell us of a group of men, women, and children, who came and settled around a great river, called the Euphrates, away in the far East. It was one of the four rivers that watered the garden of Eden—a very beautiful and fertile spot. This little group of settlers—known as the Chaldeans—grew corn in their rich country and became very prosperous, while other men were wandering about the trackless land with no fixed abode or calling...
The Life Of Alexander The Great
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Author : Plutarch
language : en
Publisher: Modern Library
Release Date : 2004-04-13
The Life Of Alexander The Great written by Plutarch and has been published by Modern Library this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-04-13 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In 336 b.c. Philip of Macedonia was assassinated and his twenty-year-old son, Alexander, inherited his kingdom. Immediately quelling rebellion, Alexander extended his father’s empire through-out the Middle East and into parts of Asia, fulfilling the soothsayer Aristander’s prediction that the new king “should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labour and sweat to describe and celebrate him.” The Life of Alexander the Great is one of the first surviving attempts to memorialize the achievements of this legendary king, remembered today as the greatest military genius of all time. This exclusive Modern Library edition, excerpted from Plutarch’s Lives, is a riveting tale of honor, power, scandal, and bravery written by the most eminent biographer of the ancient world.
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Author : Arrian,
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2013-02-14
Alexander The Great written by Arrian, and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Arrian's account of Alexander's life and campaigns, published as the Anabasis and its companion piece the Indica, is our prime source for the history of Alexander, told with great narrative skill. This edition features a new translation of both texts, introduction, notes, guide to military systems and terminology, maps and a full index.
Alexander The Great
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Author : Philip Freeman
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2011-01-04
Alexander The Great written by Philip Freeman and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An accessible yet authoritative biography of the Macedonian king and legendary conqueror—“as racy and pacey as any novel . . . a rollicking read” (Wall Street Journal). Alexander the Great is one of the most enduring figures in history. His military mastery was of such renown that future leaders from Hannibal to Napoleon studied his strategy and tactics. In the brief spa of his life—crowned at age nineteen and dead by thirty-two—he established the greatest empire of the ancient world. Born into the royal family of Macedonia, Alexander was tutored by Aristotle as a boy. Shortly after taking command, he launched an invasion of the Persian empire, and continued his conquests as far south as the deserts of Egypt and as far east as the mountains of present-day Pakistan and the plains of India. Within a short time after Alexander’s death in Baghdad, his empire began to fracture. In his lively and authoritative biography of Alexander, classical scholar and historian Philip Freeman describes Alexander’s astonishing achievements and provides insight into the mercurial character of the great conqueror. As Freeman explains, without Alexander, the influence of Greece on the ancient world would not have been nearly as great as it was.
Pyrrhus Serapis Classics
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Author : Jacob Abbott
language : en
Publisher: Serapis Classics
Release Date : 2017-10-18
Pyrrhus Serapis Classics written by Jacob Abbott and has been published by Serapis Classics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-18 with History categories.
PYRRHUS, King of Epirus, entered at the very beginning of his life upon the extraordinary series of romantic adventures which so strikingly marked his career. He became an exile and a fugitive from his father's house when he was only two years old, having been suddenly borne away at that period by the attendants of the household, to avoid a most imminent personal danger that threatened him. The circumstances which gave occasion for this extraordinary ereption were as follows: The country of Epirus, as will be seen by the accompanying map, was situated on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea, and on the southwestern confines of Macedonia. The kingdom of Epirus was thus very near to, and in some respects dependent upon, the kingdom of Macedon. In fact, the public affairs of the two countries, through the personal relations and connections which subsisted from time to time between the royal families that reigned over them respectively, were often intimately intermingled, so that there could scarcely be any important war, or even any great civil dissension in Macedon, which did not sooner or later draw the king or the people of Epirus to take part in the dispute, either on one side or on the other. And as it sometimes happened that in these questions of Macedonian politics the king and the people of Epirus took opposite sides, the affairs of the great kingdom were often the means of bringing into the smaller one an infinite degree of trouble and confusion...
Wisdom S Daughter Serapis Classics
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Author : H. Rider Haggard
language : en
Publisher: Serapis Classics
Release Date : 2017-10-20
Wisdom S Daughter Serapis Classics written by H. Rider Haggard and has been published by Serapis Classics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-20 with Fiction categories.
At the end of She: A History of Adventure, the title character appeared to be killed; but promised to return. In Ayesha, the second book, the two adventurers from the first novel, Leo and Holly, are inspired to look for She in Thibet. They discover people who have lived in a hidden mountain since the time of Alexander the Great. They find Ayesha leading the cult of Hes, though they do not recognise her at first. After which, they plan to return to The Flame of Life, in Kor, Africa; but first they have to wait for the paths to clear in the spring...
Alexander The Great
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Author : Thomas R. Martin
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-09-28
Alexander The Great written by Thomas R. Martin and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This book explains what made Alexander 'Great' according to the people and expectations of his time and place.
Alexander The Great King Commander And Statesman
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Author : Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond
language : en
Publisher: William Andrew
Release Date : 1980
Alexander The Great King Commander And Statesman written by Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond and has been published by William Andrew this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with History categories.
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Author : Elizabeth Baynham
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 1998
Alexander The Great written by Elizabeth Baynham and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The literary tradition surrounding the Macedonian conqueror is rich, contradictory and complex. Much of what we know comes from the history of Quintus Curtius, who wrote a history of Alexander in the first century AD. Baynham explores Curtius' historical style and his presentation of the legendary king. She examines his use of ancient sources, and discusses why Curtius chose to preserve the information about Alexander that he did. She demonstrates that his work was a carefully planned narrative, and that he was not only interested in presenting Alexander as a clever ruler and accomplished tactician, but also as a human subject to the whims of chance, of fortuna .