Tom Holland

Darius III: Alexander’s stooge

The last ruler of the Persian empire will always be eclipsed by his famous adversary Alexander the Great, according to a review of Darius by Pierre Briant

  • Imagining Xerxes: Ancient Perspectives on a Persian King

    Emma Bridges

    Bloomsbury, pp. 256

  • Darius: In the Shadow of Alexander

    Pierre Briant, translated by Jane Marie Todd

    Harvard, pp. 579

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