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Conquest & Empire: The Reign of Alexanger the Great » (Canto ed)

Authors: Albert Brian Bosworth, A. B. Bosworth, E. M. Butler
ISBN-13: 9780521406796, ISBN-10: 052140679X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: March 1993
Edition: Canto ed

An exploration of the process and consequences of the campaigns of Alexander the Great of Macedon.

	List of illustrations
	Preface
	Introduction: Origins
a	The Ritual Hero	1
b	The Professional Practitioner	4
Pt. I	The Golden Age
Ch. I	The Wise Men of the East
a	The Magi	15
b	Zoroaster	20
Ch. II	Hebrew Holy Men
a	Moses	29
b	Solomon	35
Ch. III	The Sages of Greece
a	Pythagoras	44
b	Apollonius of Tyana	55
Ch. IV	The Downfall of the Magus
a	Christ	66
b	Simon Magus	73
Pt. II	The Dark Ages
Ch. I	Under the Christian Cloud
a	Cyprian	87
b	Theophilus	91
c	Gerbert	94
Ch. II	Post-Pagan Shades
a	Virgil	98
b	Merlin	104
Ch. III	Beneath a Black Sun
a	Zyto	112
b	Joan and Gilles	116
c	Doctor Faust	121
d	Friar Bacon	144
Ch. IV	In the Light of Common Day
a	Dee and Kelley	160
b	Gauffridi and Grandier	172
Pt. III	Return of the Magi
Ch. I	Aristeas Redivivus	179
Ch. II	The Man of Mystery	185
Ch. III	The Grand Copht	215
Ch. IV	Madame and the Masters	243
Ch. V	The 'Holy Devil'	261
	Conclusion	264
	Bibliography	269
	Index	277