The Last Days And Testament Of Alexander The Great
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The Last Days and Testament of Alexander the Great
Author | : Waldemar Heckel |
Publsiher | : Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Liber de morte testamentumque Alexandri Magni |
ISBN | : UOM:39015013514230 |
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The Last Will and Testament of Alexander the Great
Author | : David Grant |
Publsiher | : Pen and Sword Military |
Total Pages | : 525 |
Release | : 2021-09-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781526771278 |
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A re-assessment of Alexander the Great's death, exposing a conspiracy by Alexander's generals after his death to undermine his empire. Alexander the Great conquered the largest empire the world had ever seen while still in his twenties but fell fatally ill in Babylon before reaching 33 years old. His wife Roxanne was still pregnant with what would be his only legitimate son, so there was no clear-cut heir. The surviving accounts of his dying days differ on crucial detail, with the most popular version claiming Alexander uttered ‘to the strongest’ when asked to nominate a successor on his deathbed. Decades of ‘civil war’ ensued as Alexander’s hard-won empire was torn asunder by generals in the bloody ‘funeral games’ his alleged final words heralded in. The fighting for supremacy inevitably led to the extermination of his bloodline. But was Alexander really so short-sighted and irresponsible? Finally, after 2,340 years, the mystery is unravelled. In a forensic first, David Grant presents a compelling case for what he terms the ‘greatest succession cover up of all time’. Alexander’s lost Last Will and Testament is given new credibility and Grant deciphers events that led to its erasure from history by the generals who wanted to carve up the empire for themselves.
Curtius Rufus Histories of Alexander the Great Book 10
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2009-03-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780191567858 |
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This book presents a translation, with commentary, of a major Roman source on the end of the reign of Alexander the Great. Book 10 of Curtius' Histories covers the reign of terror and mutiny that followed upon Alexander's return from India; and offers the fullest account of the power struggle that began in Babylon immediately after his death. The Introduction establishes a profile of Curtius Rufus (quite probably a Roman Senator of the first century AD), and his agenda as a historian. John Yardley's translation and the commentary are designed for the reader without Latin. The Commentary provides detailed analysis of the historical events of the crucial period 325-3 BC covered by Curtius, and also tries to get behind the surface level of meaning to show how Curtius intended his history to be a text for his time. Curtius' text is also examined as a literary achievement in its own right.
Alexander the Great
Author | : Ian Worthington |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 449 |
Release | : 2012-03-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781136640049 |
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This exciting new edition includes a selection of the most significant and representative published articles and chapters about Alexander and covers all the main areas of debate and discussion in Alexander scholarship.
Cities of Alexander the Great
Author | : P. M. Fraser |
Publsiher | : Clarendon Press |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 1996-07-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780191584442 |
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The cities founded by Alexander the Great are an essential part of his overall achievements. The problems concerning them, however, are many - and some incapable of solution. This book is the first to unravel thoroughly the tradition, explaining how it originated in a tendentious political pamphlet of the third century BC, which in turn originated in Ptolemaic Alexandria in the context of the development of the earliest version of the Alexander Romance. The author explores the ramification of this reconstruction from a lost Greek original through to the Persian and Arab tradition, and concludes that the number of cities claiming to be Alexander's as recorded in ancient sources needs to be considerably reduced. The book also includes some more general new considerations regarding Alexander's policies and achievements.
The Alexander Romance
Author | : Krzysztof Nawotka,Agnieszka Wojciechowska |
Publsiher | : Barkhuis |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2018-10-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9789492444738 |
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The Alexander Romance is a difficult text to define and to assess justly. From its earliest days it was an open text, which was adapted into a variety of cultures with meanings that themselves vary, and yet seem to carry a strong undercurrent of homogeneity: Alexander is the hero who cannot become a god, and who encapsulates the desires and strivings of the host cultures. The papers assembled in this volume, which were originally presented at a conference at the University of Wroc?aw, Poland, in October 2015, all face the challenge of defining the Alexander Romance. Some focus on quite specific topics while others address more overarching themes. They form a cohesive set of approaches to the delicate positioning of the text between history and literature. From its earliest elements in Hellenistic Egypt, to its latest reworkings in the Byzantine and Islamic Middle East, the Alexander Romance shows itself to be a work that steadily engages with such questions as kingship, the limits of human (and Greek) nature, and the purpose of history. The Romance began as a history, but only by becoming literature could it achieve such a deep penetration of east and west.
The Death of Alexander the Great
Author | : P. C. Doherty |
Publsiher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0786713402 |
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Explores the lifetime, career, and mysterious death of the young Macedonian conqueror.
By the Spear
Author | : Ian Worthington |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 411 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780199929863 |
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A unique military and cultural history that chronicles the reigns of Philip and Alexander the Great in one sweeping narrative.