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The First European: A History of Alexander in the Age of Empire - Hardcover

Briant, Pierre; Elliott, Nicholas

 
9780674659667: The First European: A History of Alexander in the Age of Empire
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 067465966X ISBN 13: 9780674659667
Verlag: Harvard University Press, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

The exploits of Alexander the Great were so remarkable that for centuries after his death the Macedonian ruler seemed a figure more of legend than of history. Thinkers of the European Enlightenment, searching for ancient models to understand contemporary affairs, were the first to critically interpret Alexander s achievements. As Pierre Briant shows, in the minds of eighteenth-century intellectuals and "philosophes," Alexander was the first European: a successful creator of empire who opened the door to new sources of trade and scientific knowledge, and an enlightened leader who brought the fruits of Western civilization to an oppressed and backward Orient.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Pierre Briant is Emeritus Professor of History of the Achaemenid World and Alexander's Empire at the Collège de France.

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Verlag
Harvard University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
067465966X
ISBN 13 
9780674659667
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Anzahl der Seiten
496
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