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Alexander: The Conqueror
by Laura Foreman
Studies of Alexander the Great are even more abundant than usual in the year when we will see the return of the king to the big screen. This book however stands out. The story is a familiar one but Laura Foreman eloquently scrutinises the known facts in order to uncover something of the personality of Alexander. Supported throughout by large colour photographs of images of Alexander created in antiquity, the Middle Ages and in more recent years, ...
Hardback. Print on Demand. Price GB £19.99
Panhellenism and the Barbarian in Archaic and Classical Greece
by Lynette Mitchell
This is the first book in English to provide a systematic treatment of Panhellenism. The author argues that in archaic and classical Greece Panhellenism was a body of narratives that expressed, defined and limited the community of the Hellenes and gave it political substance. Yet Panhellenic narratives also responded to other needs of the community, in particular serving to locate the Hellenes in time and space. Thus one of the chief Panhellenic ...
Hardback. Price GB £45.00
Alexander the Great
by Paul Cartledge
Paul Cartledge makes no apologies for writing a new history of that regular favourite Alexander the Great. Arguing that there is far more to Alexander than the black and white view favoured by past studies, this book places Alexander's personality and actions in their historical context, revealing it to be a time of great brutality and frequent war. Cartledge's focus is on Alexander the predator. Macedonian youths were expected to exhibit hunting ...
Hardback. Price GB £18.99
The History of Alexander the Great
by Scot McKendrick
A lavishly produced monograph about a late 15th Century illuminated manuscript. The text is a translation into French, by Vasco da Lucena, of one of the primary sources for the life of Alexander. The illustrations portray the events of the story in contemporary costumes and settings. Now in the John Paul Getty collection, this publication discusses the history of the text and the manuscript itself, with full colour reproduction of each ...
Hardback. Price GB £110.00
Alexander the Great: A Reader
edited by Ian Worthington
Does Alexander deserve to be called `Great'? That is the question that dominates all areas of this penetrating and in-depth examination of Alexander's treatment at the hands of a long line of scholars. Having established the difficulties of interpreting ancient sources, Worthington includes primary evidence and the work of principle historians, highlighting dominant and current debates. The volume is divided into thematic chapters which, for ...
Paperback. Price GB £26.99
Hardback. Price GB £85.00
Alexander the Great and His Empire
by Pierre Briant
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. After a short account of Alexander's life before his landing in Asia Minor, the book gives a brief overview of the major stages of his conquest. This background sets the stage for a series of concise thematic chapters that explore the origins and objectives of the ...
Paperback. Price GB £13.95
Hardback. Price GB £27.95
Alexander the Great: Myth, Genesis and Sexuality
by Daniel Ogden
This volume examines the mythologizing of procreation and sex in the traditions surrounding the figure of Alexander the Great. Accordingly, it comprises both treatments of the narratives spun around his own siring and birth on the one hand, and treatments of the narratives spun around the king's own procreative and sexual career on the other. Ogden shows that a significant amount of this mythologizing took root in Alexander's own age. The ...
Paperback. Price GB £20.00
Hardback. Price GB £60.00
Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend
by Richard Stoneman
Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.E.) precipitated immense historical change in the Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. But the resonance his legend achieved over the next two millennia stretched even farther - across foreign cultures, religious traditions, and distant nations. Alexander came to embody the concerns of Hellenistic man; he fueled Roman ideas on tyranny and kingship; and, he was a talisman for fourth-century pagans and a hero of ...
Paperback. Price GB £12.99
Hardback. Price GB £20.00
Alexander the Great: A New History
edited by Waldemar Heckel and Lawrence A. Tritle
Books on Alexander appear at an extraordinary rate, and in many cases seem to disappear almost as quickly. This is sure to be an exception and destined for a place on any reading list. Narrative is present, but takes a back seat to a series of thematic studies, some throwing new light on traditional topics, such as Alexander's relations with the Greeks - here a spotlight is shone on those who accepted and benefitted from Alexander's rule. Others ...
Paperback. Price GB £19.99
Hardback. Price GB £55.00
Alexander at the Battle of the Granicus
by Rupert Matthews
You should never judge a book by its cover, and this is a lot better than the Boys own style painting of Alexander, the swahbuckling hero suggests. It would of course be impossible to get a book out of just one ancient battle, and Rupert Matthews doesn't really try. Instead the majority of the book is a detailed examination of Greek and Macedonian equipment, military organisation and tactics, highlighting the different roles of troop ...
Hardback. Price GB £20.00
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