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Alexander the Great: Historical Sources in Translation (Blackwell Sourcebooks in Ancient History)
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by Waldemar Heckel and J. C. Yardley
Sales Rank: 776803
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$43.95
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 376 pages
Published by: Wiley-Blackwell January 16, 2004
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0631228217
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0631228219
Book Dimensions:
9.6 x 6.8 x 1.2 inches
Weighs: 1.5 pounds
Product Review
"This volume provides an great selection of source materials with judicious commentary and up-to-date references. The elusive Alexander has never been so accessible to undergraduates. This volume seems destined to become a standard in our classrooms." Professor Frank Holt, University of Houston <!--end-->
"This well-conceived and brilliantly executed book will be a boon to lecturers, teachers, and students of Alexander alike." Dr Pat Wheatley, University of Queensland
"A review has to answer one simple question: is it advisable to buy this book? This time, the answer is an unqualified yes. Heckel and Yardley have collected many sources on the reign of Alexander and offer admirable translations and fine explanationstheir book is to be recommended to anyone studying the reign of Alexander." Jona Lendering, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Product Description
This source book presents new translations of the most important ancient writings on the life and legacy of Alexander the Great.
- Provides comprehensive coverage of Alexander, from his family background to his military conquests, death and legacy.
- Includes substantial extracts of texts written by historians, geographers, biographers and military writers.
- A general introduction and introductions to each chapter set the sources in context.
- Also includes a bibliography of modern works, visual sources and a map of Alexander's
expedition.
Reader Reviews
I have read extensively on Alexander the Great,as I lived 25 years of my life in the City that he created Alexandria Egypt.This book is a collection of ,Arrian,Justin, Curtius Rufus,Plutarch,Dioduros Siculus,Aelian,Metz Epitome,Strabo the great Geopgrapher. and many more.What makes this book different is how different writers have written about the same subjects about Alexander's life.They differ in many ways,and interpreted in many ways his life.The book also has excerpts of Alexander's original speaches to his Macedonian and Persian army. In this book there are names of the cities that Alexander founded,excerpts of his will,his final days, his final plans, and what was done about his final decisions. Although the book is intense it is very readable. If you really read this book you will see that Alexander indeed wanted to globalize the world.In doing so he had to conquer to be able to do it.Although I think that he was too anxious in doing it, he did bring many races together.Had he lived longer who knows whether he would have been able to conquer the Romans. Many Roman Ceasars tried to copy him, from his hairstyle to his military genius.However we shall never know.Beeing an Italian and having read extensively and studied Roman History I am sure it would have been something to try and conquer Alexander, or he conquering the Romans. I enjoyed the book because it made me think more into depth in his strategies of war,and he as a person.
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