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100	1		_aBriant, Pierre, _e1
245	1	0	_aDarius in the shadow of Alexander /Pierre Briant ; translated by Jane Marie Todd.
260			_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bHarvard University Press, _c(c)2015.
300			_a1 online resource (xv, 579 pages) : _billustrations.
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505	0	0	_aPreface to the English-language edition -- _tTranslator's note -- _tIntroduction: Between remembering and forgetting -- _tPart I. The impossible biography -- _tA shadow among his own -- _tDarius past and present -- _tPart II. Contrasting portraits -- _t"The last Darius, the one who was defeated by Alexander" -- _tArrian's Darius -- _tA different Darius or the same one? -- _tDarius between Greece and Rome -- _tPart III. Reluctance and enthusiasm -- _tUpper king and lower king -- _tIron helmet, silver vessels -- _tThe great king's private and public lives -- _tPart IV. Darius and Dara -- _tDara and Iskandar -- _tDeath and transfiguration -- _tPart V.A final assessment and a few proposals -- _tDarius in battle : variations on the theme "images and realities" -- _tAbbreviations -- _tGreek and Roman sources.
520	2		_a"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.
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600	0	0	_aDarius _bIII, _cKing of Persia, _d-330 B.C.
600	0	0	_aAlexander, _cthe Great, _d356 B.C.-323 B.C.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
700	1		_aTodd, Jane Marie, _d1957- _etrl
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