Author: Apollodorus
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Apollodorus
Author: of Athens Apollodorus
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 636
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 636
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The Encyclopaedia Britannica: Andros-Austria
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1056
Book Description
"The last great work of the age of reason, the final instance when all human knowledge could be presented with a single point of view ... Unabashed optimism, and unabashed racism, pervades many entries in the 11th, and provide its defining characteristics ... Despite its occasional ugliness, the reputation of the 11th persists today because of the staggering depth of knowledge contained with its volumes. It is especially strong in its biographical entries. These delve deeply into the history of men and women prominent in their eras who have since been largely forgotten - except by the historians, scholars"-- The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2012/apr/10/encyclopedia-britannica-11th-edition.
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1056
Book Description
"The last great work of the age of reason, the final instance when all human knowledge could be presented with a single point of view ... Unabashed optimism, and unabashed racism, pervades many entries in the 11th, and provide its defining characteristics ... Despite its occasional ugliness, the reputation of the 11th persists today because of the staggering depth of knowledge contained with its volumes. It is especially strong in its biographical entries. These delve deeply into the history of men and women prominent in their eras who have since been largely forgotten - except by the historians, scholars"-- The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2012/apr/10/encyclopedia-britannica-11th-edition.
The Encyclopædia Britannica: Andros-Austria
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
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The Library: Book 3.10-end. Epitome
Author: Apollodorus
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ISBN:
Category : Mythology, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Attributed to Apollodorus of Athens (born c. 180 BCE), but probably composed in the first or second century BCE, the Library provides a grand summary of Greek myths and heroic legends about the origin and early history of the world and of the Hellenic people. The Library provides in three books a grand summary of traditional Greek mythology and heroic legends. Written in clear and unaffected style, the compendium faithfully follows the Greek literary sources. It is thus an important record of Greek accounts of the origin and early history of the world and their race. This work has been attributed to Apollodorus of Athens (born c. 180 BCE), a student of Aristarchus. But the text as we have it was written by an author probably living in the first or second century of our era. In his highly valued notes to the Loeb Classical Library edition (which is in two volumes) J. G. Frazer cites the principal passages of other ancient writers where each particular story is told and compares the various versions to those in the Library.
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Category : Mythology, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Attributed to Apollodorus of Athens (born c. 180 BCE), but probably composed in the first or second century BCE, the Library provides a grand summary of Greek myths and heroic legends about the origin and early history of the world and of the Hellenic people. The Library provides in three books a grand summary of traditional Greek mythology and heroic legends. Written in clear and unaffected style, the compendium faithfully follows the Greek literary sources. It is thus an important record of Greek accounts of the origin and early history of the world and their race. This work has been attributed to Apollodorus of Athens (born c. 180 BCE), a student of Aristarchus. But the text as we have it was written by an author probably living in the first or second century of our era. In his highly valued notes to the Loeb Classical Library edition (which is in two volumes) J. G. Frazer cites the principal passages of other ancient writers where each particular story is told and compares the various versions to those in the Library.
The Trojan War
Author: Chris Ray
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1409210219
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
A realistic and gritty rendition of Trojan War, written from the viewpoint of Iphidaimos - the last surviving combatant and the only man who knows the truth behind the war.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1409210219
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
A realistic and gritty rendition of Trojan War, written from the viewpoint of Iphidaimos - the last surviving combatant and the only man who knows the truth behind the war.
Βιβλιοθηκη
Author: Apollodorus
Publisher:
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Category : Mythology, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Griekse tekst en Engelse vertaling van een uit de eerste eeuw voor Chr. daterende samenvatting van de Griekse mythologie
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Category : Mythology, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Griekse tekst en Engelse vertaling van een uit de eerste eeuw voor Chr. daterende samenvatting van de Griekse mythologie
The Library [by] Apollodorus
Author: Apollodorus
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Category : Mythology, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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Category : Mythology, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
In Search Of The Lost Testament of Alexander the Great
Author: David Grant
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1785899538
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 896
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1785899538
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 896
Book Description
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.
Bibliotheca Classica
Author: J. Lempriere
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752578130
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1866. A Dictionary of all the principal Names and Terms relating to the Geography, Topography, History, Literature, and Mythology of Antiquity and the Ancients, with a chronological Table.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752578130
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1866. A Dictionary of all the principal Names and Terms relating to the Geography, Topography, History, Literature, and Mythology of Antiquity and the Ancients, with a chronological Table.
The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Chronicle
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 634
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 634
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