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Alexander: The Ambiguity Of Greatness
by Rogers, Guy MacLean
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1400062616
- ISBN 13
- 9781400062614
- Seller
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Toms River, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Random House, 2004. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Stated First Edition. In addition, complete number line including number one. Hard cover in very good condition with black boards and gold gilt spine lettering. Text block clean and tight but for former owner's name on inside of front cover under the jacket flap; no other writings or markings noted. Dust jacket in likewise very good condition; not price clipped. * From a review by William H. McNeill, professor emeritus in history, University of Chicago, "". . . a learned and judicious essay about a man who became a myth in his lifetime and remains partly mythical today in spite of the best efforts of generations of scholars to interpret and reinterpret surviving ancient texts about him. Certainty on many points will never be possible, but reading what Rogers has to say about how Alexander changed the world around him and how his deeds still echo among us is a delightful exercise. Alexander modeled himself on Homer's heroes and actually joined their company, as no one else ever managed to do.""
Synopsis
GUY MACLEAN ROGERS holds a Ph.D. in classics from Princeton University. He has received numerous grants and fellowships, including ones from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, and All Souls College Oxford. His first book, The Sacred Identity of Ephesos: Foundation Myths of a Roman City, won the Routledge Ancient History Prize. Chairman of the Department of History of Wellesley College from 1997-2001, he grew up and still lives in Litchfield County, Connecticut. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Elk Creek Heritage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008223
- Title
- Alexander: The Ambiguity Of Greatness
- Author
- Rogers, Guy MacLean
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1400062616
- ISBN 13
- 9781400062614
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- History, History - Ancient - Greece, Alexander the Great - 356-523 B.C., Greece - History - Macedonian Expansion, Generals - Greece - Biography, Greece - Kings and Rulers - Biography
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; History of Ancient Civilizations;
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About the Seller
Elk Creek Heritage Books
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Toms River, New Jersey
About Elk Creek Heritage Books
Elk Creek Heritage Books opened for business in 2002 with both online selling and an open shop. We continue now as an online-only bookshop and maintain a growing inventory with new additions regularly uploaded. Our largest subject areas include History, Religion, Biography, and Fiction, however, we also carry books on many other subjects, in addition to our collection of rare and antiquarian books. Our goal is to provide you, our customer, with a completely satisfactory experience.
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