Author: Plutarch
Publisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 1588363473
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
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.
The Life of Alexander the Great
Author: Plutarch
Publisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 1588363473
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 1588363473
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
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.
Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.
Author: Peter Green
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520071667
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
This biography portrays Alexander as both a complex personality and a single-minded general, a man capable of such diverse expediencies as patricide or the massacre of civilians. Writing for the general reader, the author provides gritty details on Alexander's darker side while providing a gripping tale of Alexander's career.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520071667
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
This biography portrays Alexander as both a complex personality and a single-minded general, a man capable of such diverse expediencies as patricide or the massacre of civilians. Writing for the general reader, the author provides gritty details on Alexander's darker side while providing a gripping tale of Alexander's career.
Publishers' circular and booksellers' record
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Languages : en
Pages : 804
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Languages : en
Pages : 804
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Catalogue of the Library of the Illinois State Penitentiary, Joliet, Illinois
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Category : Prison libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Category : Prison libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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W. Baynes and Son's General Catalogue of Second-hand Books for 1821;
Author: W. Baynes and Son
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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Alexander to Actium
Author: Peter Green
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520083493
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1006
Book Description
A meticulous analysis of Hellenistic culture spanning three centuries, from the death of Alexander the Great in 325 B.C. Green surveys every significant aspect of Hellenistic cultural development in this colorful, complex period that will fascinate all readers. 217 illustrations, 30 maps.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520083493
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1006
Book Description
A meticulous analysis of Hellenistic culture spanning three centuries, from the death of Alexander the Great in 325 B.C. Green surveys every significant aspect of Hellenistic cultural development in this colorful, complex period that will fascinate all readers. 217 illustrations, 30 maps.
Catalogue of the Library of the Rochdale Equitable Pioneers' Society Limited
Author: Rochdale Equitable Pioneers' Society
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Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Catalogue, Classified and Alphabetical, of the Books of the St. Louis Public School Library
Author: St. Louis Public School Library
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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Catalogue, Classified and Alphabetical, of the Books of the St. Louis Public School Library
Author: St. Louis Public Schools (Saint Louis, Mo.). Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Pages : 424
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Aristotle East and West
Author: David Bradshaw
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781139455800
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This book traces the development of conceptions of God and the relationship between God's being and activity from Aristotle, through the pagan Neoplatonists, to thinkers such as Augustine, Boethius and Aquinas (in the West) and Dionysius the Areopagite, Maximus the Confessor and Gregory Palamas (in the East). The result is a comparative history of philosophical thought in the two halves of Christendom, providing a philosophical backdrop to the schism between the Eastern and Western Churches.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781139455800
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This book traces the development of conceptions of God and the relationship between God's being and activity from Aristotle, through the pagan Neoplatonists, to thinkers such as Augustine, Boethius and Aquinas (in the West) and Dionysius the Areopagite, Maximus the Confessor and Gregory Palamas (in the East). The result is a comparative history of philosophical thought in the two halves of Christendom, providing a philosophical backdrop to the schism between the Eastern and Western Churches.