Historical Commentary on Arrian s History of Alexander: Volume II. - Books Iv

Zusatztext The reviewer has been taught much by the book ... we have here a substantial and rewarding work of erudition ... Sound scholarship endures. B. has made use of Chr. Lassen's excellent Indische Altertumskunde! now more than a century and a quarter old: likewise! it is rational to hope that still in the twenty-second century B's fine Commentary will be read and pondered by serious students of history! literature! and antiquities. Klappentext This is the long-awaited second volume of a magisterial commentary on the work of the historian Arrian. It deals in depth with a crucial period (329-326 BC) of the reign of Alexander the Great, discussing some of the earliest datable evidence for the history of Central Asia and Pakistan, and analyzing Alexander's views of sovereignty and divinity. Zusammenfassung This, the second volume of an exhaustive commentary on the work of the historian Arrian, deals with the period 329-326 BC, during the reign of Alexander the Great. It discusses some of the earliest datable evidence on the history of Central Asia and Pakistan.

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• Authors: A B Bosworth, A. B. Bosworth, A. B. (Professor and Head of Department Bosworth, A.B. Bosworth, Albert Brian Bosworth, Bosworth A. B.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.07.1995
• EAN: 9780198148296
• ISBN: 978-0-19-814829-6
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Historical Commentary on Arria; Historical Commentary on Arria; A Historical Commentary on Arrian's History of Alexander
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE