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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...
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Briant, Pierre, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Darius in the Shadow of Alexander / Pierre Briant. Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015] ©2015 1 online resource (540 p.) : 64 halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface to the English- Language Edition -- Translator’s Note -- Introduction: Between Remembering and Forgetting -- I. THE IMPOSSIBLE BIOGRAPHY -- 1. A Shadow among His Own -- 2. Darius Past and Present -- II. CONTRASTING PORTRAITS -- 3. “The Last Darius, the One Who Was Defeated by Alexander” -- 4. Arrian’s Darius -- 5. A Different Darius or the Same One? -- 6. Darius between Greece and Rome -- III. RELUCTANCE AND ENTHUSIASM -- 7. Upper King and Lower King -- 8. Iron Helmet, Silver Vessels -- 9. The Great King’s Private and Public Lives -- IV. DARIUS AND DĀRĀ -- 10. Dārā and Iskandar -- 11. Death and Transfiguration -- V. A FINAL ASSESSMENT AND A FEW PROPOSALS -- 12. Darius in Battle: Variations on the Theme “Images and Realities” -- Abbreviations -- Greek and Roman Sources -- General Bibliography -- Notes -- Thematic Notes by Chapter -- Illustration Credits -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) HISTORY / Ancient / Greece. bisacsh Todd, Jane Marie, contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110665901 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674744608 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674744608 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674744608/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface to the English- Language Edition -- Translator’s Note -- Introduction: Between Remembering and Forgetting -- I. THE IMPOSSIBLE BIOGRAPHY -- 1. A Shadow among His Own -- 2. Darius Past and Present -- II. CONTRASTING PORTRAITS -- 3. “The Last Darius, the One Who Was Defeated by Alexander” -- 4. Arrian’s Darius -- 5. A Different Darius or the Same One? -- 6. Darius between Greece and Rome -- III. RELUCTANCE AND ENTHUSIASM -- 7. Upper King and Lower King -- 8. Iron Helmet, Silver Vessels -- 9. The Great King’s Private and Public Lives -- IV. DARIUS AND DĀRĀ -- 10. Dārā and Iskandar -- 11. Death and Transfiguration -- V. A FINAL ASSESSMENT AND A FEW PROPOSALS -- 12. Darius in Battle: Variations on the Theme “Images and Realities” -- Abbreviations -- Greek and Roman Sources -- General Bibliography -- Notes -- Thematic Notes by Chapter -- Illustration Credits -- Index |
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