Alexander the Great: Selections From Arrian, Diodorus, ...
 Author: Arrian Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 938.07092 EAN: 9780872207271 ISBN: 0872207277 Number Of Pages: 193 Publication Date: 2005-04-15 [... more]
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Handbook to Life in Ancient Greece
Not Light Reading: I really hoped to have a book that would convey to me how it was and how it felt to live in Ancient Greece. I guess that all of the necessary information is there, but it is not presented in any cogent way. Good overall reference book: [... more]
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The Wars of Alexander the Great: 336-323 BC
For the new fan of Alex, give this book a try...: I really enjoyed this little morsel of history, so much so that I tried another another book from the Essential Histories series when reading on another topic. Before mentioning the good/bad about the [... more]
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Epictetus, I, Discourses, Books 1-2
Not just the Discourses: This is volume one of a two volume set. The second volume is "Epictetus : Discourses, Books 3 and 4 (Loeb Classical Library, No 218)". The contents for both volumes are as follows: VOLUME I: Introduction (editors) [... more]
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Penguin Classics History Of Alexander
One of the Three Major Sources for Alexander's Life: The most interesting and controversial, but not necessarily the most accurate, ancient biography of Alexander the Great. In addition to Arrian and Plutarch, you can't say you know all about Alexander [... more]
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Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1
The only complete collection, but not best edition: It is unfortunate that the only complete set of Plutarch's Lives (one of the great treasures of literature, ancient or modern) is offered by Modern Library, whose overrated editions are reasonably [... more]
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Handbook of Epictetus
A Great Introduction to Stoic Philosophy: Possibly the most famous Stoic Philosopher is Marcus Aurelius, whose "Meditations" was written, not to be read as a philosophic treatise, but rather as a personal journal, complete with seemingly random [... more]
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In The Footsteps Of Alexander
From Amazon.com: British filmmaker Michael Wood embarks on an idiosyncratic journey of 20,000 miles tracing the expedition of Alexander the Great in this captivating documentary. Relying on the words of Greek and Roman historians, Wood sought to follow [... more]
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Library of History, VIII: Books 16.66-17
The Liberator and the Conqueror: Plutarch tends to be moralistic and tangential. Thucydides slows down his narrative with an abundance of detail and set speeches. If you want a good, straightforward "rumpty tumpty" presentation of exciting and [... more]
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In the Footsteps of Alexander The Great: A Journey from ...
From Amazon.com: Intrepid explorer in search of the past, British journalist Michael Wood follows the path of Alexander the Great and his army from Macedonia to the Himalayas and beyond in the fourth century B.C. Always one for adventures to match those [... more]
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Penguin Classics Campaigns Of Alexander
The main source on Alexander: Although Arrian is not always reliable, he's what we have. He brought to together a number of sources to write this account which goes more or less linearly through all of Alexander's major battles, the rebellions, and his [... more]
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Arrian, I, Anabasis of Alexander: Books 1-4
Author: Arrian Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 938.070924 EAN: 9780674992603 ISBN: 0674992601 Number Of Pages: 656 Publication Date: 1976-01-01 [... more]
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