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Darius In The Shadow Of Alexander
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Author : Pierre Briant
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2015-01-05
Darius In The Shadow Of Alexander written by Pierre Briant and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-05 with History categories.
A detailed and incisive analysis of the recorded history surrounding the last king of Achaemenid Persia, Darius III. 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 explains in the first book ever devoted to the historical memory of Darius III, the little that is known of him comes primarily from Greek and Roman sources, which often present him in an unflattering light, as a decadent Oriental who lacked the masculine virtues of his Western adversaries. Influenced by the Alexander Romance as they are, even the medieval Persian sources are not free of harsh prejudices against the king Dara, whom they deemed deficient in the traditional kingly virtues. Ancient Classical accounts construct a man who is in every respect Alexander’s opposite—feeble-minded, militarily inept, addicted to pleasure, and vain. When Darius’s wife and children are captured by Alexander’s forces at the Battle of Issos, Darius is ready to ransom his entire kingdom to save them—a devoted husband and father, perhaps, but a weak king. While Darius seems doomed to be a footnote in the chronicle of Alexander’s conquests, in one respect it is Darius who has the last laugh. For after Darius’s defeat in 331 BCE, Alexander is described by historians as becoming ever more like his vanquished opponent: a Darius-like sybarite prone to unmanly excess. Praise for Darius in the Shadow of Alexander “Briant is the world’s leading authority on the Persian empire that Alexander conquered, one of few living scholars with the linguistic mastery to study both the Greco-Roman and Persian sources and hence examine the reign of Darius from European and Asian perspectives. In the intensely thorough analysis he conducts here, he finds reasons to mistrust both traditions and thereby qualify the charge of cowardice that has shadowed Darius for more than two millennia . . . His insights are penetrating and his mastery of the evidentiary record is unsurpassed . . . Having deftly taken down much of the edifice supplied by the ancient accounts of Darius, Briant finally turns architect and shows us how the rebuilding might begin.” —James Romm, The Wall Street Journal “Briant’s work, as always, is a significant contribution to Achaemenid studies, a display of historiographical learnedness whose methods can benefit historians across ancient studies.” —Jennifer Finn, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Xerxes The Fall Of The House Of Darius And The Rise Of Alexander 5
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Author : Frank Miller
language : en
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics (Single Issues)
Release Date : 2018-08-01
Xerxes The Fall Of The House Of Darius And The Rise Of Alexander 5 written by Frank Miller and has been published by Dark Horse Comics (Single Issues) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-01 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
The Persian Empire is vast beyond imagining. It seems destined to last a thousand years . . . But a whirlwind comes from the west: the greatest warlord the world will ever know. Alexander! Deluxe collector format! 40+ pages of story!
Xerxes The Fall Of The House Of Darius And The Rise Of Alexander
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Author : Frank Miller
language : en
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Release Date : 2019-03-19
Xerxes The Fall Of The House Of Darius And The Rise Of Alexander written by Frank Miller and has been published by Dark Horse Comics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-19 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
This historical epic, set in the world of 300, tells of the upsurge and decline of the Persian King's empire, and the ascent of the Grecian realm through Alexander. Written and illustrated by comics luminary and legend, Frank Miller (Sin City, The Dark Knight, 300), and colored by Alex Sinclair (Batman: The Dark Knight III: The Master Race), this companion to Miller's epic masterpiece, 300, brings the historical story of Xerxes to the graphic novel audience with grit and visual style! The ongoing Greek rebellion against Persian tyranny reaches a turning point after the destruction of the city of Sardis and the later battle of Marathon: on a military campaign to vanquish the city of Athens and silence the Greeks once and for all, Xerxes, Persian Prince, watches as his father, King Darius, falls in battle . . . The mantle of king is passed and while his newly-inherited fleet retreats toward home, Xerxes' hatred is cemented toward Athens--and his incentive to build the Persian empire is fueled. Xerxes becomes the king of all countries--the king of Persia, ruler of Zion, and Pharoah of Egypt--and his empire is unlike any the world has ever seen, until . . . The mantle is again passed, the god king dies and Darius III continues as the king of all. But then, from the west, a tiger force strikes in Asia Minor and is on a course for collision with Persian forces. This will be the beginning of the end for Persia and the launch of Alexander the Great's rise to power!
Issus And Gaugamela
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Author : Frédéric Bey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-07
Issus And Gaugamela written by Frédéric Bey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07 with Gaugamela, Battle of, Iraq, 331 B.C. categories.
In just three years and two battles against the 'king of kings' Darius III, the young monarch of Macedonia brought the great Persia to its knees. Alexander the Great, with the help of the mighty Macedonian war machine - phalanx, heavy cavalry - overcame the Persian army at Issus (-333), opening the doors of Phenicia, Syria and Egypt. At Gaugamela (-331), the two rivals and their soldiers fight again a decisive battle which see the death of Darius and the accession of Alexander as the new ruler of the ancient East. From a military point of view, the victories of Alexander show both a tactical genius and a personal involvement - sometimes risking his own life - from the young leader in the heart of battle. The technique of Alexander was to form the model of some of the great generals in history, from Ceasar to Napoleon.
Darius Dans L Ombre D Alexandre
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Author : Pierre Briant
language : fr
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Darius Dans L Ombre D Alexandre written by Pierre Briant and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Greece categories.
Passant pour le roi le plus puissant de son temps, chef d'un empire immense entre Indus et Méditerranée, Darius III, dernier représentant des Achéménides, semble néanmoins relever de l'obscure catégorie des " illustres inconnus ". Aussi surprenant que cela puisse paraître, voici le premier livre jamais consacré à rassembler et à tisser les fils de sa mémoire. La faiblesse du dossier documentaire mais aussi un certain désintérêt pour l'empire achéménide finissant contribuent à expliquer cette étrange absence. Qui plus est, transmises presque exclusivement par des sources gréco-romaines qui chantent les exploits " homériques " d'Alexandre et dénoncent ses excès " orientaux ", les bribes de connaissance sur Darius sont restées prisonnières de l'image envahissante du " soldat de la civilisation " venu d'Europe soumettre pays et populations du Proche-Orient. Réduit à une identité mutilante - " celui qui fut vaincu par Alexandre " -, le dernier des Grands rois n'a jamais pu avoir une vie historiographique autonome. Mais ce n'est pas tout, puisque, marquée par une déroutante amnésie historique et influencée par la tradition occidentale du Roman d'Alexandre, la tradition persane et arabo-persane est, elle aussi, très critique pour le souvenir reconstitué de Dara, vaincu par son " frère " Iskender. L'enquête de ce livre porte prioritairement sur les représentations de Darius qui se sont constituées tant en Grèce, à Rome qu'en Iran, et qui ont été transmises à travers la littérature et l'iconographie jusqu'à nos jours. En offrant une lecture nouvelle et stimulante de textes et d'images connus, et en utilisant les ressources de l'anthropologie et de l'histoire comparatiste, l'auteur cherche à comprendre pourquoi Darius, à côté de tant d'autres, est condamné à hanter le territoire historien de l'oubli.
In The Path Of Conquest
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Author : Waldemar Heckel
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2020
In The Path Of Conquest written by Waldemar Heckel and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In the Face of Panhellenic War: Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean, 340-334 -- The Long Road to Asia Minor: Resistance in Macedonia and Greece -- First Clash in Asia Minor -- From the Aegean to Cappadocia -- Persian Counter Measures: The War in the Aegean -- The Great King and his Armies -- The Campaign in Cilicia -- The Levant and Egypt: Collaboration and Resistance -- Darius' Last Stand and the Collapse of Persian Resistance -- The End of Darius III -- War in Central Asia -- Persianizing and the Internal Enemy -- From the Hindu Kush to the Indus -- From the Panjāb to Pattala -- Return to the West: Problems of Consolidation and the Revival of Old Grievancesv--Appendix: Sources for the History of Alexander.
Ghost On The Throne
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Author : James Romm
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2011-10-11
Ghost On The Throne written by James Romm and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-11 with History categories.
Alexander the Great, perhaps the most commanding leader in history, united his empire and his army by the titanic force of his will. His death at the age of thirty-two spelled the end of that unity. The story of Alexander’s conquest of the Persian empire is known to many readers, but the dramatic and consequential saga of the empire’s collapse remains virtually untold. It is a tale of loss that begins with the greatest loss of all, the death of the Macedonian king who had held the empire together. With his demise, it was as if the sun had disappeared from the solar system, as if planets and moons began to spin crazily in new directions, crashing into one another with unimaginable force. Alexander bequeathed his power, legend has it, “to the strongest,” leaving behind a mentally damaged half brother and a posthumously born son as his only heirs. In a strange compromise, both figures—Philip III and Alexander IV—were elevated to the kingship, quickly becoming prizes, pawns, fought over by a half-dozen Macedonian generals. Each successor could confer legitimacy on whichever general controlled him. At the book’s center is the monarch’s most vigorous defender; Alexander’s former Greek secretary, now transformed into a general himself. He was a man both fascinating and entertaining, a man full of tricks and connivances, like the enthroned ghost of Alexander that gives the book its title, and becomes the determining factor in the precarious fortunes of the royal family. James Romm, brilliant classicist and storyteller, tells the galvanizing saga of the men who followed Alexander and found themselves incapable of preserving his empire. The result was the undoing of a world, formerly united in a single empire, now ripped apart into a nightmare of warring nation-states struggling for domination, the template of our own times.
Alexander The Great
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Author : Philip Freeman
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2011-10-18
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 2011-10-18 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In the first authoritative biography of Alexander the Great written for a general audience in a generation, classicist and historian Philip Freeman tells the remarkable life of the great conqueror. The celebrated Macedonian king has been one of the most enduring figures in history. He was a general of such skill and renown that for two thousand years other great leaders studied his strategy and tactics, from Hannibal to Napoleon, with countless more in between. He flashed across the sky of history like a comet, glowing brightly and burning out quickly: crowned at age nineteen, dead by thirty-two. He established the greatest empire of the ancient world; Greek coins and statues are found as far east as Afghanistan. Our interest in him has never faded. Alexander was born into the royal family of Macedonia, the kingdom that would soon rule over Greece. Tutored as a boy by Aristotle, Alexander had an inquisitive mind that would serve him well when he faced formidable obstacles during his military campaigns. Shortly after taking command of the army, 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. Alexander spent nearly all his adult life away from his homeland, and he and his men helped spread the Greek language throughout western Asia, where it would become the lingua franca of the ancient world. Within a short time after Alexander’s death in Baghdad, his empire began to fracture. Best known among his successors are the Ptolemies of Egypt, whose empire lasted until Cleopatra. 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. Alexander could be petty and magnanimous, cruel and merciful, impulsive and farsighted. Above all, he was ferociously, intensely competitive and could not tolerate losing—which he rarely did. As Freeman explains, without Alexander, the influence of Greece on the ancient world would surely not have been as great as it was, even if his motivation was not to spread Greek culture for beneficial purposes but instead to unify his empire. Only a handful of people have influenced history as Alexander did, which is why he continues to fascinate us.
The Family Of Darius Before Alexander
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Author : Veronese
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1945
The Family Of Darius Before Alexander written by Veronese and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1945 with categories.
The Persian Boy
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Author : Mary Renault
language : en
Publisher: Virago
Release Date : 2014-08-07
The Persian Boy written by Mary Renault and has been published by Virago this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-07 with Fiction categories.
'One of the greatest historical novels ever written' SARAH WATERS 'I love to find queer representation in historical fiction. . . Renault's eye for intimacy is amazing' DOUGLAS STUART 'Fierce, complex and eloquent' MADELINE MILLER 'Mary Renault is a shining light' HILARY MANTEL *** A groundbreaking queer classic and powerful reimagining of the last years of Alexander the Great, told through the eyes of his lover. I thought, There goes my lord, whom I was born to follow. I have found a king. And, I said to myself, looking after him as he walked away, I will have him, if I die for it. Bagoas, abducted as a boy and sold as a eunuch, has been transported to the heart of the Persian court as courtesan to King Darius. But when the Macedon army conquers his homeland, Bagoas finds freedom at the hands of their golden young commander, whose name is already becoming a legend: Alexander. Their encounter sparks a passionate devotion that shapes the Persian boy's future - and deepens into a relationship that will sustain them both through assassination plots, political intrigue and the threat of Alexander's own restless ambition. This is a spellbinding tale of power, loyalty and loss - a vision of history transfigured by love. 'Nowhere else in fiction have Alexander's beauty and charisma blazed with such potency' TOM HOLLAND 'Passionate and captivating' SEÁN HEWITT 'All my sense of the ancient world - its value, its style, the scent of its wars and passions - comes from Mary Renault' EMMA DONOGHUE 'The Alexander Trilogy stands as one of the most important works of fiction in the 20th century' ANTONIA SENIOR, THE TIMES
