Darius in the shadow of Alexander /

Main Author: Briant, Pierre
Other Authors: Todd, Jane Marie,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Preface to the English-language edition
  • Translator's note
  • Introduction: Between remembering and forgetting
  • Part I. The impossible biography
  • A shadow among his own
  • Darius past and present
  • Part II. Contrasting portraits
  • "The last Darius, the one who was defeated by Alexander"
  • Arrian's Darius
  • A different Darius or the same one?
  • Darius between Greece and Rome
  • Part III. Reluctance and enthusiasm
  • Upper king and lower king
  • Iron helmet, silver vessels
  • The great king's private and public lives
  • Part IV. Darius and Dara
  • Dara and Iskandar
  • Death and transfiguration
  • Part V. A final assessment and a few proposals
  • Darius in battle : variations on the theme "images and realities"
  • Abbreviations
  • Greek and Roman sources.