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  • The Greek Alexander Romance

    by Richard Stoneman ...
    Mystery surrounds the parentage of Alexander, the prince born to Queen Olympias. Is his father Philip, King of Macedonia, or Nectanebo, the mysterious sorcerer who seduced the queen by trickery? One thing is certain: the boy is destined to conquer the known world. He grows up to fulfil this prophecy, building a mighty empire that spans from Greece and Italy to Africa and Asia. Begun soon after the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Ancient Historiography on War and Empire

    Edited by Timothy Howe, Sabine Müller, Richard Stoneman ...
    In the ancient Greek-speaking world, writing about the past meant balancing the reporting of facts with shaping and guiding the political interests and behaviours of the present. Ancient Historiography on War and Empire shows the ways in which the literary genre of writing history developed to guide empires through their wars. Taking key events from the Achaemenid Persian, Athenian, Macedonian and ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Xerxes

    A Persian Life

    by Richard Stoneman ...
    Xerxes, Great King of the Persian Empire from 486–465 B.C., has gone down in history as an angry tyrant full of insane ambition. The stand of Leonidas and the 300 against his army at Thermopylae is a byword for courage, while the failure of Xerxes’ expedition has overshadowed all the other achievements of his twenty-two-year reign.   In this lively and comprehensive new biography, Richard Stoneman ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Megasthenes' Indica

    A New Translation of the Fragments with Commentary

    by Richard Stoneman ...
    Series series Routledge Classical Translations
    This book provides a new translation of all the surviving portions of the description of India written by Megasthenes in about 310 BCE, the fullest account of Indian geography, history and customs available to the classical world. The Indica was a pioneering work of ethnography that exemplified a new direction in Hellenistic writing; India was little-known to the Greeks before the expedition of ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • The Greek Experience of India

    From Alexander to the Indo-Greeks

    by Richard Stoneman ...
    An exploration of how the Greeks reacted to and interacted with India from the third to first centuries BCEWhen the Greeks and Macedonians in Alexander’s army reached India in 326 BCE, they entered a new and strange world. They knew a few legends and travelers’ tales, but their categories of thought were inadequate to encompass what they witnessed. The plants were unrecognizable, their properties ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • The Legendary Adventures of Alexander the Great

    by Richard Stoneman ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    He was destined to rule the world ...A prince is born under a star of good fortune. It is prophesied that he will become the greatest king of all time. Alexander grows up to fulfil this destiny - powerful as a lion, skilled in the art of war and leader of a vast army.Soon his fame sweeps the world as he builds a mighty empire, conquering all who stand in his way. But this is not enough for the ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Alexander the Great

    by Richard Stoneman ...
    Series series Lancaster Pamphlets in Ancient History
    Alexander the Great by Richard Stoneman is an introduction to the career and impact of the great Macedonian conqueror and the main themes of his reign. As well as tackling problems of interpretation, the author includes:an examination of the written and other sources and the problems of working with themdiscussion of archaeological and numismatic evidencean outline of the Macedonian ... Read more

    $74.99 CAD

  • A History of Alexander the Great in World Culture

    Edited by Richard Stoneman ...
    Alexander III of Macedon (356-323 BC) has for over 2000 years been one of the best recognized names from antiquity. He set about creating his own legend in his lifetime, and subsequent writers and political actors developed it. He acquired the surname 'Great' by the Roman period, and the Alexander Romance transmitted his legendary biography to every language of medieval Europe and the Middle East. ... Read more

    $167.99 CAD

  • Greek Fiction

    Edited by ]. R. Morgan, Richard Stoneman ...
    First published in 1994. Greek fiction has never been more popular. New approaches to ancient literature, and new courses in literature in translation, have made the ancient novel a fertile field for scholar and student alike. This volume extends the boundaries of the subject beyond the 'canon' of the romances properly called and examines Greek fictional writing in the widest possible context, ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Pindar

    by Dr Richard Stoneman ...
    Series series Understanding Classics
    The 6th/5th century BCE Greek melic (or songwriting) poet Pindar was one of the most celebrated lyricists of antiquity. His famous victory odes offer a paean to the heroic athlete, and collectively are an attempt to encapsulate, through choral songs of exaltation, the glory of the sportsman's moment of victory - whether in athletics or horse-racing - at a variety of Panhellenic festivals and ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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    by E.J. Rapson ...
    E.J. Rapson's The Cambridge History of India: ... Read more

    $4.47 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ashoka in Ancient India

    by Nayanjot Lahiri ...
    In the third century BCE, Ashoka ruled an empire encompassing much of modern-day India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh. During his reign, Buddhism proliferated across the South Asian subcontinent, and future generations of Asians came to see him as the ideal Buddhist king. Disentangling the threads of Ashoka’s life from the knot of legend that surrounds it, Nayanjot Lahiri presents a vivid ... Read more

    $39.49 CAD