Alexander the Great, a Battle for Truth and Fiction
Autor David Granten Limba Engleză Hardback – 20 apr 2022
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781399094719
ISBN-10: 1399094718
Pagini: 336
Ilustrații: 4 MONO; 4 MONO
Dimensiuni: 164 x 241 x 34 mm
Greutate: 0.67 kg
Editura: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
ISBN-10: 1399094718
Pagini: 336
Ilustrații: 4 MONO; 4 MONO
Dimensiuni: 164 x 241 x 34 mm
Greutate: 0.67 kg
Editura: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Notă biografică
David Grant has a masters degree in ancient history. He is responsible for a number of international patents stemming from ideas that set out to challenge the status quo in one way or another, life experience which gave him his academic tenets: always challenge accepted norms, the past is never dead, and believe what you read at your peril. Unsurprisingly, his first 917-page on Alexander the Great book set out to question and contest the 'standard model' of the Macedonian king. His controversial questioning and reconstruction of ancient events extends into this new book on the mysteries of the royal Macedonian tombs.
Descriere
The Ancient Sources And Why They Cant Be Trusted. A long overdue new appraisal of the sources for Alexander the GreatDavid Grant unearths fragments and echoes of eyewitness testimony preserved in the much later histories which form the basis of our knowledge of these epic events.The author demonstrates how the history of Alexanders life and campaigns was deliberately manipulated by eyewitnesses from the outset to suit the agendas of its writers and their sponsors, particularly with regard to his death.Grant demonstrates how the wars of Alexanders successors were waged in their pages as well as on the battlefield in propaganda used to