Los Cr Menes De Ardeshir Villa
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Xerxes
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Author : Richard Stoneman
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2015-08-15
Xerxes written by Richard Stoneman and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Xerxes, Great King of the Persian Empire from 486–465 B.C., has gone down in history as an angry tyrant full of insane ambition. The stand of Leonidas and the 300 against his army at Thermopylae is a byword for courage, while the failure of Xerxes’ expedition has overshadowed all the other achievements of his twenty-two-year reign. In this lively and comprehensive new biography, Richard Stoneman shows how Xerxes, despite sympathetic treatment by the contemporary Greek writers Aeschylus and Herodotus, had his reputation destroyed by later Greek writers and by the propaganda of Alexander the Great. Stoneman draws on the latest research in Achaemenid studies and archaeology to present the ruler from the Persian perspective. This illuminating volume does not whitewash Xerxes’ failings but sets against them such triumphs as the architectural splendor of Persepolis and a consideration of Xerxes’ religious commitments. What emerges is a nuanced portrait of a man who ruled a vast and multicultural empire which the Greek communities of the West saw as the antithesis of their own values.
A New Classical Dictionary Of Biography Mythology And Geography Partly Based On The Dictionary Of Greek And Roman Biography And Mythology
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Author : William Smith
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2022-10-27
A New Classical Dictionary Of Biography Mythology And Geography Partly Based On The Dictionary Of Greek And Roman Biography And Mythology written by William Smith and has been published by Legare Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-27 with categories.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Numismatic Fine Arts
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Author : Edward Gans
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-08
Numismatic Fine Arts written by Edward Gans and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08 with categories.
The Byzantine Empire, Barbaric Imitations, Mediaeval And Renaissance Coins From The Ninth-Sixteenth Century, Artistic Medals, Newly Acquired, From The Fifteenth-Twentieth Century, Greek And Roman Coins, New Acquisitions Only And Not Listed In Earlier Issues, Modern Gold Coins, Latin America And Europe.
Form And Actuality
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Author : Oswald Spengler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1950
Form And Actuality written by Oswald Spengler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1950 with Civilization categories.
Imagining Xerxes
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Author : Emma Bridges
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2014-11-20
Imagining Xerxes written by Emma Bridges and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-20 with History categories.
Xerxes, the Persian king who invaded Greece in 480 BC, quickly earned a notoriety that endured throughout antiquity and beyond. The Greeks' historical encounter with this eastern king – which resulted, against overwhelming odds, in the defeat of the Persian army – has inspired a series of literary responses to Xerxes in which he is variously portrayed as the archetypal destructive and enslaving aggressor, as the epitome of arrogance and impiety, or as a figure synonymous with the exoticism and luxury of the Persian court. Imagining Xerxes is a transhistorical analysis that explores the richness and variety of Xerxes' afterlives within the ancient literary tradition. It examines the earliest representations of the king, in Aeschylus' tragic play Persians and Herodotus' historiographical account of the Persian Wars, before tracing the ways in which the image of Xerxes was revisited and adapted in later Greek and Latin texts. The author also looks beyond the Hellenocentric viewpoint to consider the construction of Xerxes' image in the Persian epigraphic record and the alternative perspectives on the king found in the Jewish written tradition. Analysing these diverse representations of Xerxes, this title explores the reception of a key figure in the ancient world and the reinvention of his image in a remarkable array of cultural and historical contexts.
Yvain
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Author : Chretien de Troyes
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 1987-09-10
Yvain written by Chretien de Troyes and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-09-10 with Poetry categories.
The twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes is a major figure in European literature. His courtly romances fathered the Arthurian tradition and influenced countless other poets in England as well as on the continent. Yet because of the difficulty of capturing his swift-moving style in translation, English-speaking audiences are largely unfamiliar with the pleasures of reading his poems. Now, for the first time, an experienced translator of medieval verse who is himself a poet provides a translation of Chrétien’s major poem, Yvain, in verse that fully and satisfyingly captures the movement, the sense, and the spirit of the Old French original. Yvain is a courtly romance with a moral tenor; it is ironic and sometimes bawdy; the poetry is crisp and vivid. In addition, the psychological and the socio-historical perceptions of the poem are of profound literary and historical importance, for it evokes the emotions and the values of a flourishing, vibrant medieval past.
Money In The Bank Lessons Learned From Past Counterinsurgency Coin Operations
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Author : Angel Rabasa
language : en
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Release Date : 2007-09-06
Money In The Bank Lessons Learned From Past Counterinsurgency Coin Operations written by Angel Rabasa and has been published by Rand Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-06 with Political Science categories.
Six historic counterinsurgency (COIN) operations are examined to determine which tactics, techniques, and procedures led to success and which to failure. The Philippines, Algeria, Vietnam, El Salvador, Jammu and Kashmir, and Colombia were chosen for their varied characteristics relating to geography, historical era, outcome, type of insurgency faced, and level of U.S. involvement. Future U.S. COIN operations can learn from these past lessons.
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 Biography & Autobiography categories.
Darius III ruled over the Persian Empire and was the most powerful king of his time, yet he remains obscure. In the first book devoted to the historical memory of Darius III, Pierre Briant describes a man depicted in ancient sources as a decadent Oriental who lacked Western masculine virtues and was in every way the opposite of Alexander the Great.
Robert Capa
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Author : Richard Whelan
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1994-01-01
Robert Capa written by Richard Whelan and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-01-01 with Photography categories.
The legendary war photographer Robert Capa carried into his personal life the same remarkable vitality that characterizes his pictures. Driven from his native Hungary by political oppression, he was first recognized for photographing the Spanish Civil War. In 1938 he was in China recording the Japanese invasion. During World War II he was in London, North Africa, and Italy, and then in France covering D-Day on Omaha Beach, the liberation of Paris, and the Battle of the Bulge. When the new nation of Israel was founded in 1948 he was there. In 1954 he was in Vietnam, taking photographs until the moment he was killed. Away from battle, Capa gather about him such famous people as Ernest Hemingway and his wife (the war correspondent Martha Gellhorn), Gary Cooper, Irwin Shaw, and Gene Kelly. Whelan shows Capa photographing the street life of Paris, crisscrossing America on assignment from Life, in Russia with John Steinbeck, in Italy with John Huston, on the Riviera with Picasso, and with Ingrid Bergman.
Lord Demon
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Author : Roger Zelazny
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2000-02-08
Lord Demon written by Roger Zelazny and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-02-08 with Fiction categories.
The final masterpiece by the late and legendary Roger Zelazny, written in collaboration with acclaimed author Jane Lindskold. A once-legendary warrior, made soft by a thousand years of peace, seeks vengeance for the murder of a devoted human servant. He must preserve the demon race and the Demon Realms--an impossible task unless he can regain that which made him extraordinary.