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03728nam a2200397Ki 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
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ocn898893424 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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OCoLC |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20240726104919.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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141229s2015 maua ob 001 0beng d |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
NT |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Description conventions |
rda |
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pn |
| Transcribing agency |
NT |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780674744608 |
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| 041 1# - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
eng |
| Language code of original |
fre |
| 043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE |
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| Geographic area code |
a-ir--- |
| 050 04 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
DS284 |
| Item number |
.D375 2015 |
| 049 ## - LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC) |
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| Holding library |
NTA |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Briant, Pierre, |
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Author |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Darius in the shadow of Alexander /Pierre Briant ; translated by Jane Marie Todd. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Harvard University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
(c)2015. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
1 online resource (xv, 579 pages) : |
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illustrations. |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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| Content type term |
text |
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txt |
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rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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| Media type term |
computer |
| Media type code |
c |
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rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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| Carrier type term |
online resource |
| Carrier type code |
cr |
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rdacarrier |
| 347 ## - DIGITAL FILE CHARACTERISTICS |
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| File type |
data file |
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rda |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographies and index. |
| 505 00 - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Preface to the English-language edition -- |
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Translator's note -- |
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Introduction: Between remembering and forgetting -- |
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Part I. The impossible biography -- |
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A shadow among his own -- |
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Darius past and present -- |
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Part II. Contrasting portraits -- |
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"The last Darius, the one who was defeated by Alexander" -- |
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Arrian's Darius -- |
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A different Darius or the same one? -- |
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Darius between Greece and Rome -- |
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Part III. Reluctance and enthusiasm -- |
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Upper king and lower king -- |
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Iron helmet, silver vessels -- |
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The great king's private and public lives -- |
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Part IV. Darius and Dara -- |
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Dara and Iskandar -- |
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Death and transfiguration -- |
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Part V.A final assessment and a few proposals -- |
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Darius in battle : variations on the theme "images and realities" -- |
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Abbreviations -- |
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Greek and Roman sources. |
| 520 2# - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
"The last of Cyrus the Great's dynastic inheritors and the legendary enemy of Alexander the Great, Darius III ruled over a Persian Empire that stretched from the Mediterranean to the Indus River. Yet despite being the most powerful king of his time, Darius remains an obscure figure. As Pierre Briant explains in the first book ever devoted to the historical memory of Darius III, the little that is known of him comes primarily from Greek and Roman sources, which often present him in an unflattering light, as a decadent Oriental who lacked the masculine virtues of his Western adversaries. Influenced by the Alexander Romance as they are, even the medieval Persian sources are not free of harsh prejudices against the king Dara, whom they deemed deficient in the traditional kingly virtues. Ancient Classical accounts construct a man who is in every respect Alexander's opposite--feeble-minded, militarily inept, addicted to pleasure, and vain. When Darius's wife and children are captured by Alexander's forces at the Battle of Issos, Darius is ready to ransom his entire kingdom to save them--a devoted husband and father, perhaps, but a weak king. While Darius seems doomed to be a footnote in the chronicle of Alexander's conquests, in one respect it is Darius who has the last laugh. For after Darius's defeat in 331 BCE, Alexander is described by historians as becoming ever more like his vanquished opponent: a Darius-like sybarite prone to unmanly excess"--Provided by publisher. |
| 530 ## - COPYRIGHT INFORMATION: |
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| COPYRIGHT INFORMATION |
COPYRIGHT NOT covered - Click this link to request copyright permission: |
| Uniform Resource Identifier |
<a href="b">b</a> |
| 600 00 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Darius |
| Numeration |
III, |
| Titles and other words associated with a name |
King of Persia, |
| Dates associated with a name |
-330 B.C. |
| 600 00 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Alexander, |
| Titles and other words associated with a name |
the Great, |
| Dates associated with a name |
356 B.C.-323 B.C. |
| 655 #1 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM |
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| Genre/form data or focus term |
Electronic Books. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Todd, Jane Marie, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1957- |
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| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier |
<a href="https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=931092&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518">https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=931092&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518</a> |
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Click to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) |
| DONATED BY: |
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EBSCO |
| Classification part |
DS. |
| PUBLICATION YEAR |
2015 |
| LOCATION |
ONLINE |
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NFIC |
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NT |
| 902 ## - LOCAL DATA ELEMENT B, LDB (RLIN) |
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1 |
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Cynthia Snell |
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1 |
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Cynthia Snell |