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The Campaigns of Alexander
Publication details: Penguin UK 1971Description: 666 pagesISBN:- 9780140442533
- 938.07 ARR
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
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| English Books | Anna Centenary Library | 938.07 ARR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 413627 |
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| 938.06 XEN A history of my times (Hellenica) | 938.06092 XEN The sea, the sea | 938.06092 XEN The sea, the sea | 938.07 ARR The Campaigns of Alexander | 938.07 BAL.12 In the absence of Alexander : Harpalus and the failure of Macedonian authority | 938.07 BOS Alexander and the east : the tragedy of triumph | 938.07 BOS.2 A historical commentary on Arrian's history of Alexander |
Although written over four hundred years after Alexander's death, Arrian's 'Campaigns of Alexander' is our best source of knowledge of the man and his deeds. Arrain had himself been a military commander, and his record of the exploits of the world's greatest conqueror reveals sympathy for his subject, without the adulation or contempt which so often mar other histories of the time. Arrain's unaffected style of writing, with its matter-of-fact tone, offsets the remarkable career and paradoxical nature of Alexander, giving us a fair, clear report about a man who was worshipped as a god in his own lifetime.
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