{ "item_title" : "The Campaigns of Alexander", "item_author" : [" The Lyceum Press", "The Lyceum Press", "Arrian "], "item_description" : "This new translation of Arrian's Campaigns of Alexander includes: A new English translation from the Greek text of A. G. Roos (Teubner, 1907)Complete: every chapter of all seven booksA foreword on Arrian, his sources, and his methodNotes on the text and a glossary of ancient terms and measuresA list of the principal personsAlexander the Great crossed into Asia not yet twenty-two, with a kingdom behind him, the Persian Empire before him, and an ambition vast enough to redraw the known world.Arrian of Nicomedia wrote his history four and a half centuries later. He built it chiefly on the lost accounts of Ptolemy and Aristobulus, two men who marched with Alexander, and produced the ancient account of the conquest that historians have trusted most.The seven books follow the campaign from beginning to end: the crossing into Asia; the battles of the Granicus, Issus, and Gaugamela; the sieges of Tyre and Gaza; the pursuit and death of Darius; the hard wars in Bactria and Sogdiana; the invasion of India; the army's refusal at the Hyphasis; the disastrous march through the Gedrosian desert; and Alexander's final days at Babylon.Yet this is more than a record of victories. Arrian shows the intelligence, speed, nerve, and personal courage that made Alexander nearly unbeatable. He also records the darker change in the conqueror: the killing of Cleitus, the executions of Philotas and Parmenion, the adoption of Persian court customs, the demand for prostration, and the growing distance between the king and the Macedonians who had followed him across the world.Arrian admires Alexander without surrendering judgment. His history asks whether conquest can ever satisfy the appetite that drives it, and whether a man capable of mastering nations can master himself.Arrian's Indica, his account of India and of Nearchus's voyage home, is published by The Lyceum Press as a companion volume..", "item_img_path" : "https://covers1.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/819/242/9798192429136_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "14.99", "online_price" : "14.99", "our_price" : "14.99", "club_price" : "14.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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