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The Lost Book Of Alexander The Great
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Author : Andrew Young
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-01-27
The Lost Book Of Alexander The Great written by Andrew Young and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-27 with categories.
A Reconstruction of Ptolemy I's History of Alexander's Conquests, a Primary Source Cited in Later Books That Disappeared More Than One Thousand Years Ago Alexander the Great is well known as one of the first great empire builders of the ancient world. Among those fellow Macedonian officers who accompanied Alexander in his epic conquests from Greece to India was Ptolemy Lagides. Ptolemy served alongside Alexander from the Persian defeat at the Battle of Issus in modern-day Turkey and the journey to find the oracle that proclaimed Alexander to be Zeus incarnate, to the Battle of the Hydaspes River in 326 BC that opened India to the West. Following Alexander's death, Ptolemy gained control of Egypt where he founded the dynasty in his name, created the great library of Alexandria, and was patron of the mathematician Euclid. Sometime during his rule in Egypt, Ptolemy wrote a history of Alexander's conquests. Although it is probable that Ptolemy enhanced his own importance, sources indicate that it was regarded as an accurate and even-handed account of the campaigns of Alexander. However, Ptolemy's book was lost--perhaps with the destruction of the library he founded--and not even an original fragment has survived. His book, however, was acknowledged as a primary source of information for later Roman historians. In The Lost Book of Alexander the Great, Andrew Young explores the world of ancient writings about the Macedonian leader in order to determine whether any of Ptolemy's writings can be recovered. Inspired by Stephen Greenblatt's distinguished biography of Shakespeare, Will in the World, and written for the general reader, the author uses literary forensics to suggest which parts of later books about Alexander the Great, most notably the account by Arrian of Nicomedia, might be the words of Ptolemy. In addition to separating later Roman sensibilities from the original Greek of Ptolemy, the author re-creates the famous library of Alexandria, and takes the reader along on Alexander's conquests as closely as we can to how Ptolemy may have recounted them.
The Lost Histories Of Alexander The Great
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Author : Lionel Pearson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
The Lost Histories Of Alexander The Great written by Lionel Pearson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with History categories.
The Lost Histories Of Alexander The Great
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
The Lost Histories Of Alexander The Great written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Greece categories.
The Lost Tomb Of Alexander The Great
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Author : Andrew Chugg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
The Lost Tomb Of Alexander The Great written by Andrew Chugg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Alexandria (Egypt) categories.
The Lost Chronicles Of Alexander The Great
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Author : Steve Stylianos
language : en
Publisher: Caranus Publishing Company Llc
Release Date : 2007-01-01
The Lost Chronicles Of Alexander The Great written by Steve Stylianos and has been published by Caranus Publishing Company Llc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with Fiction categories.
From the wreckage of the Alexandria library was saved an ancient scroll scribed by Ptolemy, one of Alexander's famed generals. This text is an adaptation of that scroll. The Lost Chronicles of Alexander the Great is a modern day account of the history and marvel that surrounded Alexander's life mixed with a spice of fiction. Through these pages you will not only know Alexander, but also understand the king who is more legend than history.
Alexander S Tomb
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Author : Nicholas J Saunders
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2007-07-30
Alexander S Tomb written by Nicholas J Saunders and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-07-30 with History categories.
Alexander the Great is a towering figure in world history, but despite our long-held fascination with him, his burial site is unknown. Alexander's Tomb is the epic tale of the ongoing quest to unlock one of the world's great mysteries.
The Lost Tomb Of Alexander The Great
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Author : Andrew Michael Chugg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
The Lost Tomb Of Alexander The Great written by Andrew Michael Chugg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
New research reveals hitherto unrecognised evidence and provides a fresh insight into the disappearance of The Tomb of Alexander the Great. The disappearance and fate of the tomb of Alexander the Great in Alexandria is among the most momentous and tantalising of all the mysteries we have inherited from the ancient world. Generations of archaeologists and historians have sucumbed to the allure of the quest; yet have failed to find convincing answers. Now with the dawning of the 21st century new research is revealing hitherto unrecognised evidence and providing fresh insights, creating a frisson of renewed excitement in academic circles. This new title combines a detailed chronological account of the history of the tomb with the first publication of new discoveries. Finally, an intriguing new possibility is explored regarding the whereabouts of Alexander's mummified remains.
In Search Of The Lost Testament Of Alexander The Great
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Author : David Grant
language : en
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2017-01-28
In Search Of The Lost Testament Of Alexander The Great written by David Grant and has been published by Troubador Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-28 with History categories.
A unique ‘backstory’ of Alexander and his successors: the biased historians, deceits, wars, generals, and the tale of the literature that preserved them. ‘Babylon, mid-June 323 BCE, the gateway of the gods; prostrated in the Summer Palace of Nebuchadrezzar II on the east bank of the Euphrates, wracked by fever and having barely survived another night, King Alexander III, the rule of Macedonia for 12 years and 7 months, had his senior officers congregate at his bedside. Abandoned by Fortune and the healing god Asclepius, he finally acknowledged he was dying. Some 2,340 years on, five barely intact accounts survive to tell a hardly coherent story. At times in close accord, though more often contradictory, they conclude with a melee of death-scene rehashes, all of them suspicious: the first portrayed Alexander dying silent and intestate; he was Homeric and vocal in the second; the third detailed his Last Will and Testament though it is attached to the stuff of romance. Which account do we trust?’ In Search Of The Lost Testament Of Alexander The Great is the result of a ‘decade of contemplations on Alexander’ presented as a rich thematic narrative Grant describes as the ‘backstory behind the history’ of the great Macedonian and his generals. Taking an uncompromising investigative perspective, Grant delves into the challenges faced by Alexander’s unique tale: the forgeries and biased historians, the influences of rhetoric, romance, philosophy and religion on what was written and how. Alexander’s own mercurial personality is vividly dissected and the careers and the wars of his successors are presented with a unique eye. But the book never loses sight of central aim: to unravel the mystery behind Alexander’s ‘unconvincingly reported’ intestate death. And out of Grant’s research emerges one unavoidable verdict: after 2,340 years, the Last Will and Testament of Alexander III of Macedonia needs to be extracted from ‘romance’ and reinstated to its rightful place in mainstream history: Babylon in June 323 BCE. Although the result a decade of academic research, In Search Of The Lost Testament Of Alexander The Great is written in an entertaining and engaging style that opens the subject to both scholars and the casual reader of history looking to learn more about the Macedonian king and the men who ‘made’ his story. It concludes with a wholly new interpretation of the death of Alexander the Great and the mechanism behind the wars of succession that followed.
The Lost Chronicles Of Alexander The Great
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Author : Steve Stylianos
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004-11
The Lost Chronicles Of Alexander The Great written by Steve Stylianos and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-11 with History categories.
From the wreckage of the Alexandria library comes an ancient scroll scribed by Ptolemy, one of Alexander's famed generals. This text is an adaptation of that scroll--a modern day account of the history and marvel that surrounded Alexander's life, mixed with a spice of fiction.
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.