Around 550 B.C.E. the Persian people-who were previously practically unknown in the annals of history-emerged from their base in southern Iran (Fars) and engaged in a monumental adventure that, under the leadership of Cyrus the Great and his success…
The last of Cyrus the Great's dynastic inheritors and the legendary enemy of Alexander the Great, Darius III ruled over a Persian Empire that stretched from the Mediterranean to the Indus River. Yet, despite being the most powerful king of his time,…
The present volume is a collection of articles published in English by Professor Pierre Briant of the Coll ge de France, in various forms over the past three decades. Pierre Briant has been instrumental in the recent revival of Achaemenid history, a…
Defeating the mighty Persian Empire at the age of 22, Alexander the Great rapidly conquered the rest of the then known world. This book traces the career of Alexander who was destined to become one of the greatest generals the world has known, and c…
Pierre Briant räknas som en av världens ledande auktoriteter på Alexander den store och det akemenidiska riket. Han är en fransk iranist, historiker och professor i den akemenidernas historia och kulturhistoria och Alexanders rike vid Collège de Fra…
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 contemp…
Montesquieu's marginal notes and the sometimes very developed extracts from works that make up his "manuscript library" were mostly unpublished. They are an essential access point to his work, revealing his working methods and the genesis of his thi…
Denne boken inneholder artikler som tar for seg hvilke tanker antikkens mennesker hadde om fortiden. Bidragsyterne er Øivind Andersen, Hans M. Barstad, Pierre Briant, M. Chauveau, F. Joannès, Jean Kellens, Reinhard Kratz og H.G.M. Williamson. Har li…
This is the first publication in English of Pierre Briant's classic short history of Alexander the Great's conquest of the Persian empire, from the Mediterranean to Central Asia. Eschewing a conventional biographical focus, this is the only book in…
