Alexander the Great: Volume 2, Sources and Studies (Vol 2)
by W. W. Tarn
List Price:
Our Price: $49.30
You Save: $8.70 (15%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Author: W. W. TarnEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2003-12-11
ISBN: 0521531373
Number of pages: 496
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Reviews of Alexander the Great: Volume 2, Sources and Studies (Vol 2)
Book Review: Be careful when you buy this book (Volume 2, I mean)
Summary: 4 Stars
Tarn is among the great scholars who have studied extensively the life of Alexandros III of Macedon. This is a book for scholars who are comfortable with Old Greek. Honestly, even if I am not a scholar myself I still know how to translate Old Greek, and am able to recognize (distinguish) the nuances of the Greek spoken in the Hellenistic period.
However, this book is authoritative; yes, certainly it is. The problem is that Amazon is selling only Volume II. Volume II serves as complement of Volume I, the biography and essay written by Tarn. Volume II backs up Tarn's exegesis, and is the place where to find the fragments that led Tarn to support his hypotheses. Volume II without volume I is kind of a pen without ink -- the pen will write again once that you have refilled it.
Last, but not least, I live and study Alexander often in a very subjective way. It is my fervent passion that leads me sometimes not to be objective. I belong to the current of the so-to-speak Apologetics, and am inclined to inflate Alexander's greatness and forget some of his biggest mistakes (or let's say, his non virtuous actions that characterize the last years of his short life). Generals as Alexander can be counted on the finger of one hand. He slept with the Ilias under his pillow - I sleep in a bedroom where there are hundred of books speaking about him. After all, we all have our weaknesses.........and please DO NOT buy this book (volume II) if you are not able to get ahold of Volume I. Thanks for reading!!
Biographies & Memoirs Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Audiobooks on Cassette
- Audiobooks on CD
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- e-Books
- Engineering
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Medicine
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in Alexander the Great - The Colossus of Greece
Alexander's Tomb: The Two-Thousand Year Obsession to Find the Lost Conquererby Nicholas J. Saunders
Basic Books; Published: 2006-07-03; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $2.73
Price in other shops:
In the Footsteps of Alexander the GreatRelease date: 2004-10-26; DVD
Best price: $536.99
The Confessions of Alexander the Great: 33 Lessons in Greatnessby Ashkan Karbasfrooshan
Granicus Publishing; Published: 2004-11-08; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.50
Price in other shops:
Alexander the Great in Fact and FictionOxford University Press, USA; Published: 2002-07-11; Paperback; Book
Best price: $20.00
Price in other shops:
Alexander the Great (The Norton library)by Ulrich Wilcken
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.; Published: 1967-11-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $15.49
Price in other shops:
Vangelis - AlexanderRelease date: 2004-11-09; Music CD
Best price: $4.67
Price in other shops:
Faces of Power: Alexander's Image and Hellenistic Politics (Hellenistic Culture and Society)by Andrew Stewart
University of California Press; Published: 1994-01-24; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $100.00
Alexander the Great and the Mystery of the Elephant Medallions (Hellenistic Culture and Society)by Frank L. Holt
University of California Press; Published: 2003-11-24; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $13.37
Price in other shops:
Alexander the Great: Volume 2, Sources and Studies (Vol 2)by W. W. Tarn
Cambridge University Press; Published: 2003-12-11; Paperback; Book
Best price: $45.92
Price in other shops:
The Greek Alexander Romance (Penguin Classics)by Richard Stoneman
Penguin Classics; Published: 1991-11-05; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.25
Price in other shops:
Similar books summaries and other product reviews
Alexander the Greatby Paul Cartledge
Vintage; Published: 2005-11-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.33
Price in other shops:
Into the Land of Bones: Alexander the Great in Afghanistan (Hellenistic Culture and Society)by Frank L. Holt
University of California Press; Published: 2006-09-14; Paperback; Book
Best price: $13.60
Price in other shops:
Diodorus Siculus: Library of History, Volume VIII, Books 16.66-17 (Loeb Classical Library No. 422)by C.Bradford Welles (Translator)
Loeb Classical Library; Published: 1963-01-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $22.63
Price in other shops:
Sources for Alexander the Great: An Analysis of Plutarch's 'Life' and Arrian's 'Anabasis Alexandrou' (Cambridge Classical Studies)by N. G. L. Hammond
Cambridge University Press; Published: 2007-08-13; Paperback; Book
Best price: $38.31
Price in other shops:
The History of Alexander (Penguin Classics)by Quintus Curtius Rufus
Penguin Classics; Published: 1984-11-06; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.00
Price in other shops:
Alexander the Great and the Mystery of the Elephant Medallions (Hellenistic Culture and Society)by Frank L. Holt
University of California Press; Published: 2005-01-25; Paperback; Book
Best price: $11.38
Price in other shops:
Alexander the Great in Fact and FictionOxford University Press, USA; Published: 2002-07-11; Paperback; Book
Best price: $19.50
Price in other shops:
Three Historians of Alexander the Great (Cambridge Classical Studies)by N. G. L. Hammond
Cambridge University Press; Published: 2007-05-31; Paperback; Book
Best price: $32.95
Price in other shops:
Alexander the Great: Historical Sources in Translation (Blackwell Sourcebooks in Ancient History)Wiley-Blackwell; Published: 2004-01-16; Paperback; Book
Best price: $32.61
Price in other shops:
Conquest and Empire: The Reign of Alexander the Great (Canto)by A. B. Bosworth
Cambridge University Press; Published: 1993-03-26; Paperback; Book
Best price: $2.77
Price in other shops: