The Life of Alexander the Great
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 exclus…
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Weitere Autoren: Clough, Arthur Hugh (Hrsg.) / Dryden, John (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-58836-347-3
- EAN: 9781588363473
- Produktnummer: 15725039
- Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 96 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 355 KB
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About the IntroducerVICTOR DAVIS HANSON has written extensively on both ancient Greek and military history; his ?fteen books include The Western Way of War and Between War and Peace. He is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a professor of classics at California State University, Fresno.
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