Book Description
History of a royal family with more than its share of tragedy and disaster
Author : John Van der Kiste
Publisher : Alan Sutton Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 10,91 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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History of a royal family with more than its share of tragedy and disaster
Author : G. Nicholas Tantzos
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,67 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Biography of the former Greek king, who is known as either Constantine II (because he was the 2nd king of modern Greece with that name) or Konstantine XIII (because his government claimed to be a continuation of the Byzantine Empire, which had eleven kings named Konstantine).
Author : Stelio L. Hourmouzios
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 28,93 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : Chrestos P. ZALOKOSTAS
Publisher :
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 49,60 MB
Release : 1952
Category :
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Author : Constantinos Lagos
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,47 MB
Release : 2021-06-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1526790831
Many books have been written about the life of Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, yet there always seem to be corners of his long life that have remained unexplored. In this long look back into his early years, Constantinos Lagos and John Carr uncover hitherto unknown aspects of Philip's life as a Greek prince and his gradual transformation from a mere appendage of the troubled Greek royal family to an enduring pillar of the British monarchy. For the first time, Lagos and Carr delve into neglected Greek archives for a fascinating picture of Philip's early Greek life and the constant insecurity that dogged his steps as his father Prince Andrew of Greece and mother Princess Alice struggled to order their own lives in the maelstrom of unstable and often violent Greek politics in a Europe sliding towards world war. The Greek royal family, in which Philip has his roots, is dealt with at length, to bring out the particular family history and circumstances that played no small part in shaping his personality. Anyone curious about how Prince Philip actually grew up will find in this book a wealth of eye-opening, often startling details that will add more brush strokes to the portrait of the often-elusive but real Prince Philip.
Author :
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Page : 64 pages
File Size : 47,14 MB
Release : 1790*
Category : Greece
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,14 MB
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781614286325
Alain Elkann has mastered the art of the interview. With a background in novels and journalism, and having published over twenty books translated across ten languages, he infuses his interviews with innovation, allowing them to flow freely and organically. Alain Elkann Interviews will provide an unprecedented window into the minds of some of the most well-known and -respected figures of the last twenty-five years.
Author : John Henry Haaren
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,53 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Classical biography
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Author : Vernon L. Provencal
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 40,70 MB
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1780938160
Sophist Kings: Persians as Other sets forth a reading of Herodotus' Histories that highlights the consistency with which the Persians are depicted as sophists and Persian culture is infused with a sophistic ideology. The Persians as the Greek 'other' have a crucial role throughout Herodotus' Histories, but their characterisation is far divorced from historical reality. Instead, from their first appearance at the beginning of the Histories, Herodotus presents the Persians as adept in the argumentation of Greek sophists active in mid-5th century Athens. Moreover, Herodotus' construct of the Sophist King, in whom political reason serves human ambition, is used to explain the Achaemenid model of kingship whose rule is grounded in a theological knowledge of cosmic order and of divine justice as the political good. This original and in-depth study explores how the ideology which Herodotus ascribes to the Persians comes directly from fifth-century sophists whose arguments served to justify Athenian imperialism. The volume connects the ideological conflict between panhellenism and imperialism in Herodotus' contemporary Greece to his representation of the past conflict between Greek freedom and Persian imperialism. Detecting a universal paradigm, Sophist Kings argues that Herodotus was suggesting the Athenians should regard their own empire as a betrayal of the common cause by which they led the Greeks to victory in the Persian wars.
Author : Evelyn S. Shuckburgh
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 12,96 MB
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780267822775
Excerpt from Greece, From the Coming of the Hellenes to A D. 14 The Lydian kings and the Ionian cities - Croesus of Lydia Cyrus and the Persians - The Ionian revolt, b.c. 501-495 Darius, b.c. 522 - 485 - Results of the Scythian expedition Submission of Thrace and Macedonia to the Persian king The Ionian revolt following the affair of N axos. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.