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Alexander the Great and His Empire: A Short Introduction

Pierre Briant - Biography & Autobiography - 2010 - 216 pages
Presents a short history of Alexander the Great's conquest of the Persian empire, from the Mediterranean to Central Asia. This book sets the rise of Alexander's short-lived ...
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Darius in the Shadow of Alexander

Pierre Briant - History - 2015 - 602 pages
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 Darius III ...
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Darius in the Shadow of Alexander

Pierre Briant - History - 2015 - 395 pages
A detailed and incisive analysis of the recorded history surrounding the last king of Achaemenid Persia, Darius III. The last of Cyrus the Great’s dynastic inheritors and the ...
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The First European: A History of Alexander in the Age of Empire

Pierre Briant - History - 2017 - 501 pages
Enlightenment thinkers, searching for ancient models to understand contemporary affairs, were the first to critically interpret Alexander the Great’s achievements. As Pierre ...
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The Persian Empire: A Corpus of Sources of the Achaemenid Period

Dr A Kuhrt - History - 2007 - 496 pages
First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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