Ebook: The First European: A History of Alexander in the Age of Empire
Author: Pierre Briant, Nicholas Elliott
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: Harvard University Press
- Language: English
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Enlightenment thinkers, searching for ancient models to understand contemporary affairs, were the first to critically interpret Alexander the Great’s achievements. As Pierre Briant shows, in their minds Alexander was the first European: an empire builder who welcomed trade with the “Orient” and brought Western civilization to its oppressed peoples.
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