The life of Alexander the Great / Plutarch ; translated by John Dryden ; edited by Arthur Hugh Clough ; introduction by Victor Davis Hanson.

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Plutarch

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Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453) Publication details: New York : Modern Library, 2004.Edition: Modern Library paperback edDescription: xvi, 72 p. : map ; 21 cmISBN:

0812971337 (pbk.)
9780812971330 (pbk.)

Uniform titles:

Lives. English. Selections

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Additional physical formats: Online version:: Life of Alexander the Great.; Online version:: Life of Alexander the Great.DDC classification:

938/.07/092 B 22

LOC classification:

DF234 .P74 2004

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Review: "In 336 b.c. Philip of Macedonia was assassinated and his twenty-year-old son, Alexander, inherited his kingdom. Immediately quelling rebellion, Alexander extended his father's empire throughout the Middle East and into parts of Asia, fulfilling the soothsayer Aristander's prediction that the new king "should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labour and sweat to describe and celebrate him."" "The Life of Alexander the Great is one of the first surviving attempts to memorialize the achievements of this legendary king, remembered today as the greatest military genius of all time. This exclusive Modern Library edition, excerpted from Plutarch's Lives, is a tale of honor, power, scandal, and bravery written by the most eminent biographer of the ancient world."--BOOK JACKET.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	AUR Library	938.07 PLU (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		010176

"In 336 b.c. Philip of Macedonia was assassinated and his twenty-year-old son, Alexander, inherited his kingdom. Immediately quelling rebellion, Alexander extended his father's empire throughout the Middle East and into parts of Asia, fulfilling the soothsayer Aristander's prediction that the new king "should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labour and sweat to describe and celebrate him."" "The Life of Alexander the Great is one of the first surviving attempts to memorialize the achievements of this legendary king, remembered today as the greatest military genius of all time. This exclusive Modern Library edition, excerpted from Plutarch's Lives, is a tale of honor, power, scandal, and bravery written by the most eminent biographer of the ancient world."--BOOK JACKET.

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