Название: In Search Of The Lost Testament of Alexander the Great
Автор: David Grant
Издательство: Cedar Forge Press
ISBN: 1943290288
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 897
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 10,3 МБ
Язык: Английский
A unique ‘backstory’ of Alexander and his successors: the biased historians, deceits, wars, generals, and the tale of the literature that preserved them.
‘Babylon, mid-June 323 BCE, the gateway of the gods; prostrated in the Summer Palace of Nebuchadrezzar II on the east bank of the Euphrates, wracked by fever and having barely survived another night, King Alexander III, the rule of Macedonia for 12 years and 7 months, had his senior officers congregate at his bedside. Abandoned by Fortune and the healing god Asclepius, he finally acknowledged he was dying. Some 2,340 years on, five barely intact accounts survive to tell a hardly coherent story.