Alexander the Great and his empire : a short introduction / Pierre Briant ; translated by Amélie Ku...
Alexander the Great and his empire : a short introduction / Pierre Briant ; translated by Amélie Ku...
Alexander the Great and his empire : a short introduction / Pierre Briant ; translated by Amélie Kuhrt.
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Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2010.
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N938.07092/20
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English
French
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Physical content
xxi, 192 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Contents
List of illustrations -- Translator's note -- Foreword to the American edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Alexander before the expedition to Asia Minor (356-334) -- 1: Major Stages Of The Conquest (334-323) -- From Granicus to the fall of Tyre (May 334-Summer 332) -- From Tyre to the Euph...
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Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2010.
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New Jersey
Date Published
c2010.
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Summary
From the Publisher: This is the first publication in English of Pierre Briant's classic short history of Alexander the Great's conquest of the Persian empire, from the Mediterranean to Central Asia. Eschewing a conventional biographical focus, this is the only book in any language that sets the rise of Alexander's short-lived empire within the bro...
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Alexander the Great and his empire : a short introduction / Pierre Briant ; translated by Amélie Kuhrt.
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Originally published under the title Alexandre le Grand. Paris : Presses universitaires de France, 1974.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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c2010.
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N938.07092/20
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0691141940 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
9780691141947 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
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938.07092
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991020272339702626
