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In the spring of 334 BC the twenty-two-year-old King Alexander led an army of 50,000 men on the most ambitious conquest of ancient times. It was to take them from Greece, across Asia Minor, to India. Combining his extraordinary military skills with diplomacy and a burning sense of destiny, the young king proved himself one of the greatest generals the world has known.Tags
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Pierre Briant is the Professor of the History and Civilization of the Achaemenid World and the Empire of Alexander the Great at the College de France. His many books include. From Cyrus to Alexander. A History of the Persian Empire.
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- Canonical title
- Alexander the Great : Man of Action, Man of Spirit
- Original title
- De la Grèce à l'Orient, Alexandre le Grand (1987) (1987)
- Alternate titles*
- Alexandre le Grand. De la Grèce à l'Inde (2005) (2005)
- Original publication date
- 1987
- People/Characters
- Alexander III the Great, 326-253 BC; Antigonus I Monophthalmos; Antipater; Aristotle, 384-322; Artaxerxes; Artaxerxes II (show all 19); Callisthenes; Cyrus the Great; Darius the Great; Darius III; Hephaestion; Olympias; Parmenion (as Parmenio); Perdiccas; Pericles; Philip II of Macedon; Philotas; Roxana (as Roxane); Sisygambis
- Important places
- Afghanistan; Ankara, Turkey; Asia; Asia Minor (Turkey); Athens, Greece; Babylon (show all 13); Babylonia; Ecbatana, Persia; Egypt; Greece; India; Iran; Middle East
- Original language*
- Français
- Disambiguation notice*
- 2 publications pour cet ouvrage chez Gallimard dans la collection Découverte, Histoire, N° 27
1) 04-12-1987 sous le titre "De la Grèce à l'Orient, Alexandre le Grand", ISBN : 2070530418
2) 01-12-2004 sous le titre ... (show all)"Alexandre le Grand. De la Grèce à l'Inde", ISBN : 9782070306091
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- Nonfiction, History, Biography & Memoir, Anthropology, General Nonfiction
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- 938.07092 — History & geography History of ancient world (to ca. 499) Greece to 323 Greece to 323 Macedonian Supremacy (362-323 BC)
- LCC
- DF234.3 .B7513 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Greece History of Greece History By period Alexander the Great, 336-323 B.C.
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