wyszukanych pozycji: 18
Alexander the Great
ISBN: 9780415319317 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Alexander the Great by Richard Stoneman is an introduction to the career and impact of the great Macedonian conqueror and the main themes of his reign. As well as tackling problems of interpretation, the author includes:
Alexander the Great by Richard Stoneman is an introduction to the career and impact of the great Macedonian conqueror and the main themes ... |
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701,59 zł |
Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend
ISBN: 9780300270068 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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65,59 zł |
Xerxes: A Persian Life
ISBN: 9780300180077 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The first full-scale account of a Persian king vilified by history
Xerxes, Great King of the Persian Empire from 486-465 B.C., has gone down in history as an angry tyrant full of insane ambition. The stand of Leonidas and the 300 against his army at Thermopylae is a byword for courage, while the failure of Xerxes' expedition has overshadowed all the other achievements of his twenty-two-year reign. In this lively and comprehensive new biography, Richard Stoneman shows how Xerxes, despite sympathetic treatment by the contemporary Greek writers Aeschylus and... The first full-scale account of a Persian king vilified by history
Xerxes, Great King of the Persian Empire from 486-465 B.C., has ... |
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136,76 zł |
The Ancient Oracles: Making the Gods Speak
ISBN: 9780300140422 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. For more than a thousand years, Greeks from all walks of life consulted oracles for guidance received directly from the gods. This colorful and wide-ranging survey encompasses the entire history of Greek oracles and focuses fresh attention on philosophical, psychological, and anthropological aspects of oracular consultation. It also examines how Greek oracles' practices were distinctive compared to those of their neighbors, especially in Egypt, Babylon, and Israel. Richard Stoneman weaves a fascinating historical tapestry, taking into account the different kinds of oracles (healers,... For more than a thousand years, Greeks from all walks of life consulted oracles for guidance received directly from the gods. This colorful and wid... |
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164,12 zł |
The Greek Experience of India: From Alexander to the Indo-Greeks
ISBN: 9780691217475 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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153,17 zł |
The Book of Alexander the Great: A Life of the Conqueror
ISBN: 9781848852938 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Book of Alexander the Great - or the Phyllada - has for three centuries been the most popular account of Alexander's career in modern Greece. After circulating in manuscript form, it was first published in 1680 in Venice, and has been continuously in print in Greek ever since. The Phyllada broadly follows the structure of the ancient Alexander Romance, but is much better organized and is a work of popular literature reflecting the immense interest that the Conqueror has generated since earliest times. Numerous folktales and local legends kept his story alive,...
The Book of Alexander the Great - or the Phyllada - has for three centuries been the most popular account of Alexander's career in m...
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Legends of Alexander the Great
ISBN: 9781848857858 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. ""How can a man become a god?"" So enquired Alexander the Great of the Brahmin sages of India. And how did they reply? ""By doing what it is impossible for a man to do."" And that answer set a keynote for the Conqueror's entire career, which was characterized throughout by Alexander's attempts to achieve the unachievable: to scale fresh heights, and make the incredible real and tangible on earth. He wrestled an Indian monster larger than an elephant, fought ants the size of foxes, and contested bats with human teeth. He became a Jewish convert, sailed up the Ganges, and visited the Earthly...
""How can a man become a god?"" So enquired Alexander the Great of the Brahmin sages of India. And how did they reply? ""By doing what it is impossibl...
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119,48 zł |
Palmyra and Its Empire: Zenobia's Revolt Against Rome
ISBN: 9780472083152 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In the twilight of the third century C.E., the unity of the Western world was threatened by financial crisis, invasion, and plague. The Syrian city Palmyra had long protected Rome against Persian invasion, but under its queen Zenobia, Palmyra broke away from Roman hegemony. The Roman Empire had never been closer to disintegration, nor had it suffered so much before at the hands of a woman.
This volume is the first comprehensive historical treatment in any language of Roman Syria, the revolt of Zenobia, and the city of Palmyra. Drawing on discoveries in archaeology, the history of the Silk... In the twilight of the third century C.E., the unity of the Western world was threatened by financial crisis, invasion, and plague. The Syrian city Pa...
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136,49 zł |
Megasthenes' Indica: A New Translation of the Fragments with Commentary
ISBN: 9781032023571 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book provides a new translation of all the surviving portions of the description of India written by Megasthenes in about 310 BCE, the fullest account of Indian geography, history and customs available to the classical world.
This book provides a new translation of all the surviving portions of the description of India written by Megasthenes in about 310 BCE, the fullest ac...
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207,83 zł |
The Greek Experience of India: From Alexander to the Indo-Greeks
ISBN: 9780691154039 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 548 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. An exploration of how the Greeks reacted to and interacted with India from the third to first centuries BCEWhen the Greeks and Macedonians in Alexander's army reached India in 326 BCE, they entered a new and strange world. They knew a few legends and travelers' tales, but their categories of thought were inadequate to encompass what they witnes
An exploration of how the Greeks reacted to and interacted with India from the third to first centuries BCEWhen the Greeks and Macedonians in Alexande...
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218,82 zł |
Pindar
ISBN: 9781780761855 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The 6th/5th century BCE Greek melic (or songwriting) poet Pindar was one of the most celebrated lyricists of antiquity. His famous victory odes offer a paean to the heroic athlete, and collectively are an attempt to encapsulate, through choral songs of exaltation, the glory of the sportsman's moment of victory - whether in athletics or horse-racing - at a variety of Panhellenic festivals and Olympian games. Yet Pindar, though still respected, is now considered a difficult poet, and is sometimes dismissed as a reactionary, celebrating an aristocratic world that was passing and that deserved to...
The 6th/5th century BCE Greek melic (or songwriting) poet Pindar was one of the most celebrated lyricists of antiquity. His famous victory odes offer ...
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119,48 zł |
Megasthenes' Indica: A New Translation of the Fragments with Commentary
ISBN: 9780367472948 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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701,59 zł |
The Book of Alexander the Great: A Life of the Conqueror
ISBN: 9781848852945 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Book of Alexander the Great - or the Phyllada - has for three centuries been the most popular account of Alexander's career in modern Greece. After circulating in manuscript form, it was first published in 1680 in Venice, and has been continuously in print in Greek ever since. The Phyllada broadly follows the structure of the ancient Alexander Romance, but is much better organized and is a work of popular literature reflecting the immense interest that the Conqueror has generated since earliest times. Numerous folktales and local legends kept his story alive,...
The Book of Alexander the Great - or the Phyllada - has for three centuries been the most popular account of Alexander's career in m...
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103,89 zł |
Alexander the Great
ISBN: 9780415319324 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "Alexander the Great "provides a concise introduction to the career and impact of the great Macedonian conqueror and the main themes of his reign. Richard Stoneman uses primary and modern sources, together with archaeological and numismatic evidence to shed light on this influential figure. Key topics discussed include:
*The Macedonian background *Alexander's education and beliefs *Alexander's conquests overseas *How far Alexander's aims differed from his achievements *Alexander's influence in antiquity The second edition has been updated throughout to take into... "Alexander the Great "provides a concise introduction to the career and impact of the great Macedonian conqueror and the main themes of his reign. Ric...
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192,23 zł |
A History of Alexander the Great in World Culture
ISBN: 9781107167698 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 468 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Alexander III of Macedon (356-323 BC) has for over 2000 years been one of the best recognized names from antiquity. He set about creating his own legend in his lifetime, and subsequent writers and political actors developed it. He acquired the surname 'Great' by the Roman period, and the Alexander Romance transmitted his legendary biography to every language of medieval Europe and the Middle East. As well as an adventurer who sought the secret of immortality and discussed the purpose of life with the naked sages of India, he became a model for military achievement as well as a religious...
Alexander III of Macedon (356-323 BC) has for over 2000 years been one of the best recognized names from antiquity. He set about creating his own lege...
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626,65 zł |
The Greek Alexander Romance
ISBN: 9780140445602 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Since his death in the third century BC, each age has woven its own legends around the figure of Alexander the Great. If the Hebrew tradition saw him as a preacher and prophet, to the Persians he was alternately a true king and an arch-Satan, while in modern Greece he is revered more as a wise man than as a conqueror. All these very disparate traditions share roots in The Greek Alexander Romance. One of the most influential works of late classical Greek literature, it reached Europe in the Middle Ages, and its effects are still visible to us in illuminated manuscripts...
Since his death in the third century BC, each age has woven its own legends around the figure of Alexander the Great. If the Hebrew traditi...
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71,06 zł |