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Pierre Briant
The present volume is a collection of articles published in English by Professor Pierre Briant of the College de France, in various forms over the past three decades.
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Around 550 BCE, the Persian people emerged from Iran and engaged in an adventure that, under the leadership of Cyrus the Great and his successors, culminated in the creation of…
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Provides an original and important perspective on Alexander the Great and his empire. This book assesses Alexander’s significance from the viewpoint of both the conquerors and the conquered, and traces…
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Pierre Briant,Jeremy Leggatt
Defeating the mighty Persian Empire at the age of 22, Alexander the Great rapidly conquered the rest of the then known world. This book traces the career of Alexander who…
Enlightenment thinkers, searching for ancient models to understand contemporary affairs, were the first to critically interpret Alexander the Great’s achievements. As Pierre Briant shows, in their minds Alexander was the…
Darius III ruled over the Persian Empire and was the most powerful king of his time, yet he remains obscure. In the first book devoted to the historical memory of…
En creant le programme international Achemenet en 2000, l'annee ou il
inaugurait la chaire Histoire et civilisation du monde achemenide et de
l'empire d'Alexandre au College de France, Pierre Briant…
Pierre De Lesconvel
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part…
The product of a colloquium at Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies, this volume offers a broadly based, comparative examination of war and military organization in their complex interactions with social…
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