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Darius in the Shadow of Alexander

Pierre Briant

Translated by Jane Marie Todd

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Publication Date: 01/05/2015

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608 pages

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Pierre Briant is Emeritus Professor of History of the Achaemenid World and Alexander’s Empire at the Collège de France.

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