Flame Tree Studio (Literature and Science), Richard Stoneman
Serija: Gothic Fantasy
(Išleidimo metai: 26-Aug-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Flame Tree Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781835622902)
Wonderful addition to the Flame Tree Epic Tales Collection, drawn from the mythologies of the world, spanning the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania.Whether it stems from a fundamental human need for certainty to know what wi...Daugiau...
Athens has a history stretching back to Mycenaean times and in the fifth century BC it became the most significant community for the development of political thought and practice, art and culture that had ever been seen and which still retains a vita...Daugiau...
This book provides a new translation of all the surviving portions of the description of India written by Megasthenes in about 310 BCE, the fullest account of Indian geography, history and customs available to the classical world. The Indica...Daugiau...
In his brief life, Alexander the Great gained fame as the military genius who conquered the known world. After death, his legend only increased. Alexander the Great (356323 B.C.) precipitated immense historical change in the Mediter...Daugiau...
Accompanying the British Librarys exhibit, the first ever exhibition on the storytelling around Alexander the Great, the King of Macedon, this book charts the evolution of a legend that continues to captivate audiences today. Alexand...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 21-Oct-2022, Hardback, Leidėjas: British Library Publishing, ISBN-13: 9780712354769)
Accompanying the British Librarys exhibit, the first ever exhibition on the storytelling around Alexander the Great, the King of Macedon, this book charts the evolution of a legend that continues to captivate audiences today. Alexand...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 03-Feb-2022, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781107167698)
Alexander III of Macedon (356-323 BC) has for over 2000 years been one of the best recognized names from antiquity. He set about creating his own legend in his lifetime, and subsequent writers and political actors developed it. He acquired the surnam...Daugiau...
This book provides a new translation of all the surviving portions of the description of India written by Megasthenes in about 310 BCE, the fullest account of Indian geography, history and customs available to the classical world. T...Daugiau...
An exploration of how the Greeks reacted to and interacted with India from the third to first centuries BCEWhen the Greeks and Macedonians in Alexanders army reached India in 326 BCE, they entered a new world. The plants were unrec...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 05-Feb-2019, Hardback, Leidėjas: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691154039)
An exploration of how the Greeks reacted to and interacted with India from the third to first centuries BCEWhen the Greeks and Macedonians in Alexanders army reached India in 326 BCE, they entered a new and strange world. They knew...Daugiau...
The Alexander Romance is a difficult text to define and to assess justly. From its earliest days it was an open text, which was adapted into a variety of cultures with meanings that themselves vary, and yet seem to carry a strong undercurrent of hom...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 19-Feb-2018, Hardback, Leidėjas: The University of Michigan Press, ISBN-13: 9780472103874)
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
In the twilight of the third century C.E., the unity of the Western world was threatened by financial crisis, invasion, and plague. The Syrian city Palmyra had long protected Rome against Persian invasion, but under its queen Zenobia, Palmyra br...Daugiau...
In the ancient Greek-speaking world, writing about the past meant balancing the reporting of facts with shaping and guiding the political interests and behaviours of the present. Ancient Historiography on War and Empire shows the ways in which the li...Daugiau...
A Travellers History of Turkey offers a full and accurate portrait of the region from Prehistory right up to the present day. Particular emphasis is given to those aspects of history which have left their mark in the sites and monuments that are sti...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Aug-2015, Hardback, Leidėjas: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300180077)
The first full-scale account of a Persian king vilified by history Xerxes, Great King of the Persian Empire from 486465 B.C., has gone down in history as an angry tyrant full of insane ambition. The stand of Leonidas and the...Daugiau...
The 6th/5th century BCE Greek melic (or songwriting) poet Pindar was one of the most celebrated lyricists of antiquity. His famous victory odes offer a paean to the heroic athlete, and collectively are an attempt to encapsulate, through choral s...Daugiau...
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
The 6th/5th century BCE Greek melic (or songwriting) poet Pindar was one of the most celebrated lyricists of antiquity. His famous victory odes offer a paean to the heroic athlete, and collectively are an attempt to encapsulate, through choral s...Daugiau...
In the lands where his empire actually lay, Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) was remembered by some as a brutal destroyer and by others as a wise ruler and sage. Classicists, archaeologists, and other scholars explore how the Greek Alexander Romance,...Daugiau...
The Book of Alexander the Great - or the Phyllada - has for three centuries been the most popular account of Alexanders career in modern Greece. After circulating in manuscript form, it was first published in 1680 in Venice, a...Daugiau...
