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Alexander : destiny and myth / Claude Mossé ; translated by Janet Lloyd ; with a foreword by Paul Cartledge.
LIBRA - Special DF234 .M6713 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mossé, Claude, 1924-
- Standardized Title:
- Alexandre. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C.
- Alexander.
- Generals--Greece--Biography.
- Generals.
- Greece.
- Greece--Kings and rulers--Biography.
- Kings and rulers.
- Greece--History--Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C.
- History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xi, 244 pages : maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
- Contents:
- 'Some more talk of Alexander' / Paul Cartledge vii
- Part I The Major Stages of Alexander's Reign
- 1. The Graeco-Oriental world at Alexander's succession 11
- 2. The beginning of Alexander's reign: the revolt of Thebes 18
- 3. The conquest of the western provinces of the Persian Empire 22
- 4. The conquest of the eastern provinces and the end of the Asian campaign 32
- Part II The Different 'Faces' of Alexander
- 5. The king of the Macedonians 47
- 6. The hegemon of the Greeks 55
- 7. The successor to the Achaemenids 66
- 8. The son of Zeus 73
- Part III Alexander the Man
- 9. Youth and upbringing 89
- 10. Alexander's personality 94
- 11. Light and shade 103
- Part IV The Legacy of Alexander
- 12. Alexander's empire: a fragile construction 113
- 13. The invention of a new type of monarchy 124
- 14. The birth of a 'new world' 140
- 15. The Hellenisation of the East, and its limits 151
- Part V Alexander the Mythical Hero
- 16. The image of Alexander in the ancient world 167
- 17. The medieval Alexander 178
- 18. The image of Alexander in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France 189
- 19. The historians and Alexander's image 197
- 20. From the Alexander Romance to novels about Alexander 202
- Alexander's principal Companions 215
- The succession of the Achaemenid kings 223.
- Notes:
- "Alexandre: la destinée d'un mythe first published in French in 2001 by Éditions Payot & Rivages"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-230) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0801879965
- 0801879957
- OCLC:
- 54905320
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