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The life of Alexander the Great / Plutarch ; translated by John Dryden ; edited by Arthur Hugh Clough ; introduction by Victor Davis Hanson.
LIBRA Special DF234 .P74 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Plutarch.
- Standardized Title:
- Lives. Selections. English
- Language:
- English
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- Subjects (All):
- Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C--Early works to 1800.
- Alexander.
- Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C.
- Generals.
- Kings and rulers.
- Greece--Kings and rulers--Biography--Early works to 1800.
- Greece.
- Generals--Greece--Biography--Early works to 1800.
- Greece--Biography--Early works to 1800.
- Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Early works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 72 pages : map ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- Modern Library paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Modern Library, 2004.
- Summary:
- "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 throughout 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 tale of honor, power, scandal, and bravery written by the most eminent biographer of the ancient world."--Jacket.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Plutarch. Lives. English. Selections. Life of Alexander the Great.
- ISBN:
- 0812971337
- 9780812971330
- OCLC:
- 53231746
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- Publisher description
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