Название: Darius in the Shadow of Alexander
Автор: Pierre Briant
Издательство: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674493095
Год: 2015
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 608
Размер: 5,0 МБ
Язык: Английский
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.