عنوان

Darius in the Shadow of Alexander

شابک

:9780674493094

شماره

985591

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Darius in the Shadow of Alexander

نام عام مواد

[book]

نام نخستين پديدآور

\ Pierre Briant; translated by Jane Marie Todd.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Cambridge

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

: Harvard University Press

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

, 2015

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xv, 579 p.

ساير جزييات

:ill.

متن يادداشت

Bibliography

متن يادداشت

Index

متن يادداشت

Preface to the English-language edition -- Translator's note -- Introduction: Between remembering and forgetting -- Part I. The impossible biography -- A shadow among his own -- Darius past and present -- Part II. Contrasting portraits -- "The last Darius, the one who was defeated by Alexander" -- Arrian's Darius -- A different Darius or the same one? -- Darius between Greece and Rome -- Part III. Reluctance and enthusiasm -- Upper king and lower king -- Iron helmet, silver vessels -- The great king's private and public lives -- Part IV. Darius and Dara -- Dara and Iskandar -- Death and transfiguration -- Part V. A final assessment and a few proposals -- Darius in battle : variations on the theme "images and realities" -- Abbreviations -- Greek and Roman sources.

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

"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, Darius remains an obscure figure. As Pierre Briant explains in the first book ever devoted to the historical memory of Darius III, the little that is known of him comes primarily from Greek and Roman sources, which often present him in an unflattering light, as a decadent Oriental who lacked the masculine virtues of his Western adversaries. Influenced by the Alexander Romance as they are, even the medieval Persian sources are not free of harsh prejudices against the king Dara, whom they deemed deficient in the traditional kingly virtues. Ancient Classical accounts construct a man who is in every respect Alexander's opposite--feeble-minded, militarily inept, addicted to pleasure, and vain. When Darius's wife and children are captured by Alexander's forces at the Battle of Issos, Darius is ready to ransom his entire kingdom to save them--a devoted husband and father, perhaps, but a weak king. While Darius seems doomed to be a footnote in the chronicle of Alexander's conquests, in one respect it is Darius who has the last laugh. For after Darius's defeat in 331 BCE, Alexander is described by historians as becoming ever more like his vanquished opponent: a Darius-like sybarite prone to unmanly excess"--Provided by publisher.

عنوان قراردادي

Darius dans l'ombre d'Alexandre.

زبان(وقتي جزئي از عنوان قراردادي باشد)

English

موضوع مستند نشده

Darius, III,-330 B.C.

موضوع مستند نشده

Alexander the Great ، 356 - 323 B. C.

موضوع مستند نشده

Iran -- Kings and rulers -- Biography.

موضوع مستند نشده

Iran -- History -- To 640.

موضوع مستند نشده

داری‍وش‌ ه‍خ‍ام‍ن‍ش‍ی‌ سوم، شاه ایران، - ۳۳۰ق‌.م‌.

موضوع مستند نشده

اسكندر مقدونی، ۳۵۶ - ۳۲۳ق. م.

موضوع مستند نشده

ایران -- شاهان و فرمانروایان -- سرگذشتنامه

موضوع مستند نشده

ایران -- تاریخ -- از آغاز تا ۶۴۰م.

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Briant, Pierre

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Todd, Jane Marie,1957-

تاريخ عمليات

20160606162004.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

rda

نوع ماده

BL

کد کاربرگه

270410

پیشوند ISBD اعمال شده است

1

تكميل شده

Y