Research Catalog

Title

The life of Alexander the Great / Plutarch ; translated by John Dryden ; edited by Arthur Hugh Clough ; introduction by Victor Davis Hanson.

Author

Plutarch

Publication

New York : Modern Library, 2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Dryden, John, 1631-1700
• Clough, Arthur Hugh, 1819-1861

Description

xvi, 72 p. : map; 21 cm.

Summary

"In 336 b.c. Philip of Macedonia was assassinated and his twenty-year-old son, Alexander, inherited his kingdom. Immediately quelling rebellion, Alexander extended his father's empire throughout the Middle East and into parts of Asia, fulfilling the soothsayer Aristander's prediction that the new king "should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labour and sweat to describe and celebrate him."" "The Life of Alexander the Great is one of the first surviving attempts to memorialize the achievements of this legendary king, remembered today as the greatest military genius of all time. This exclusive Modern Library edition, excerpted from Plutarch's Lives, is a tale of honor, power, scandal, and bravery written by the most eminent biographer of the ancient world."--Jacket.

Uniform Title

Lives. Selections. English

Alternative Title

Lives.

Subjects

• Early works
• Biographies
• Greece > Biography > Early works to 1800
• Generals > Greece > Biography > Early works to 1800
• Greece > Kings and rulers > Biography > Early works to 1800
• Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C > Early works to 1800

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Early works

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

0812971337 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2003066528

OCLC

• 53231746
• SCSB-12414827

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library