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“pierre briant”

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  • The First European

    A History of Alexander in the Age of Empire

    by Pierre Briant ...
    Translated by Nicholas Elliott ...
    "A truly remarkable forgotten chapter of European intellectual history, laid out with passion and integrity." ( The Wall Street Journal)The exploits of Alexander the Great were so remarkable that for centuries after his death the Macedonian ruler seemed a figure more of legend than of history. Thinkers of the European Enlightenment, searching for ancient models to understand contemporary affairs, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Darius in the Shadow of Alexander

    by Pierre Briant ...
    Translated by Jane Marie Todd ...
    A detailed and incisive analysis of the recorded history surrounding the last king of Achaemenid Persia, Darius III.The last of Cyrus the Great's dynastic inheritors and the legendary enemy of Alexander the Great, Darius III ruled over a Persian Empire that stretched from the Mediterranean to the Indus River. Yet, despite being the most powerful king of his time, Darius remains an obscure figure ... Read more

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  • Alexander the Great and His Empire

    A Short Introduction

    by Pierre Briant ...
    Translated by Amélie Kuhrt ...
    A classic account of Alexander the Great's conquest and its impact on the conquered—now in English for the first timeThis 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 ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

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    A New History

    Edited by Waldemar Heckel, Lawrence A. Tritle ...
    Alexander the Great: A New History combines traditional scholarship with contemporary research to offer an innovative treatment of one of history's most famous figures.Written by leading experts in the fieldLooks at a wide range of diverse topics including Alexander's religious views, his entourage during his campaign East, his sexuality, the influence of his legacy, and his representations in art ... Read more

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  • The World of Juba II and Kleopatra Selene

    Royal Scholarship on Rome's African Frontier

    by Duane W Roller ...
    Raised and educated in Rome, Juba II (48 BC- AD 23) was sent to uphold Roman interests in northwest Africa as ruler of the cliet kingdom of Mauretania. Together with his wife K'eopatra Selene, daughter of Marcus Anthonius and Kleopatra VII, he established a rich, multicultural environment at their capital, renamed Caesarea, where Egyptian, Hellenistic Greek and indigenous elements came together. ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • The Art of Forgetting

    Disgrace and Oblivion in Roman Political Culture

    by Harriet I. Flower ...
    Series series Studies in the History of Greece and Rome
    Elite Romans periodically chose to limit or destroy the memory of a leading citizen who was deemed an unworthy member of the community. Sanctions against memory could lead to the removal or mutilation of portraits and public inscriptions. Harriet Flower provides the first chronological overview of the development of this Roman practice--an instruction to forget--from archaic times into the second ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • John II Komnenos, Emperor of Byzantium

    In the Shadow of Father and Son

    Edited by Alessandra Bucossi, Alex Rodriguez Suarez ...
    Series series Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London
    The Emperor John II Komnenos (1118–1143) has been overshadowed by both his father Alexios I and his son Manuel I. Written sources have not left us much evidence regarding his reign, although authors agree that he was an excellent emperor. However, the period witnessed territorial expansion in Asia Minor as well as the construction of the most important monastic complex of twelfth-century ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Democratic Enlightenment

    Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights 1750-1790

    by Jonathan Israel ...
    The Enlightenment shaped modernity. Western values of representative democracy and basic human rights, gender and racial equality, individual liberty, and freedom of expression and the press, form an interlocking system that derives directly from the Enlightenment's philosophical revolution. This fact is uncontested - yet remarkably few historians or philosophers have attempted to trace the ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • In Search of the Phoenicians

    by Josephine Quinn ...
    Series series Miriam S. Balmuth Lectures in Ancient History and Archaeology
    Who were the ancient Phoenicians, and did they actually exist?The Phoenicians traveled the Mediterranean long before the Greeks and Romans, trading, establishing settlements, and refining the art of navigation. But who these legendary sailors really were has long remained a mystery. In Search of the Phoenicians makes the startling claim that the “Phoenicians” never actually existed. Taking readers ... Read more

    $31.69 USD

  • FEUDAL SOCIETY Vol. II

    Social Classes and Political Organisation

    by Marc Bloch ...
    Feudalism — which was essentially a political and military system — was above all a personal set of mutual obligations between lord and vassal. At its heart was the oath of loyalty. Before witnesses, a vassal placed his clasped hands between those of the lord and pledged to become "his man," a relationship usually sealed by a kiss between the two men. The vassal then took an oath of faithfulness. ... Read more

    $6.71 USD

  • Thermopylae

    The Battle That Changed the World

    by Paul Cartledge ...
    The true story of a clash of ancient cultures: "Beautifully written and stirring . . . An outstanding retelling of one of the seminal events in world history." — BooklistIn 480 BC, a huge Persian army, led by the inimitable King Xerxes, entered the mountain pass of Thermopylae as it marched on Greece, intending to conquer the land with little difficulty. But the Greeks, led by King Leonidas and a ... Read more

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  • Unfabling the East

    The Enlightenment's Encounter with Asia

    by Jürgen Osterhammel ...
    Translated by Robert Savage ...
    How Enlightenment Europe rediscovered its identity by measuring itself against the great civilizations of AsiaDuring the long eighteenth century, Europe's travelers, scholars, and intellectuals looked to Asia in a spirit of puzzlement, irony, and openness. In this panoramic and colorful book, Jürgen Osterhammel tells the story of the European Enlightenment's nuanced encounter with the great ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

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