Conquest and Empire
Subtitle: The Reign of Alexander the Great
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 27, 1989
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780521348232
Subjects: World history: BCE to c 500 CE; History - General History; History; History: World; Ancient Greece; General; History / Ancient / General; Ancient - General; Biography; Generals; Greece
First sentence: According to some authorities the Media mages were known long before the days of Zoroaster as a magico-priestly caste, one of the six tribes of the Medes enumerated by Herodotus (484-406 B.C.).