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  • The Greek Experience of India
    Richard Stoneman
    An exploration of how the Greeks reacted to and interacted with India from the third to first centuries BCEWhen the Greeks and Macedonians in Alexander’s army reached India in 326 BCE, they entered a new world. The plants were unrecognizable, the customs of the people various and puzzling. Alexander’s conquest ended with his death in 323 BCE, but the Greeks would settle in the ...
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  • Pindar
    Richard Stoneman
    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 songs of exaltation, the glory of the sportsman’s moment of victory - whether in athletics or horse-racing - at a variety of Panhellenic...
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  • Legends of Alexander the Great
    Richard Stoneman
    ’How can a man become a god?’ So enquired Alexander the Great of the Brahmin sages of India. And how did they reply? ’By doing what it is impossible for a man to do.’ And that answer set a keynote for the Conqueror’s entire career, which was characterized throughout by Alexander’s attempts to achieve the unachievable: to scale the fresh heights and make the incredible real and ...
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  • The Book of Alexander the Great
    Richard Stoneman
    The Book of Alexander the Great - or the Phyllada - has for three centuries been the most popular account of Alexander’s career in modern Greece. After circulating in manuscript form, it was first published in 1680 in Venice, and has been continuously in print in Greek ever since. The Phyllada broadly follows the structure of the ancient Alexander Romance, but is much better or...
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  • Alexander the Great
    Richard Stoneman
    Alexander the Great by Richard Stoneman is an introduction to the career and impact of the great Macedonian conqueror and the main themes of his reign. As well as tackling problems of interpretation, the author includes:an examination of the written and other sources and the problems of working with themdiscussion of archaeological and numismatic evidencean outline of the Maced...
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