Professor Lyons has published a new book comparing Alexander the Great with Hernan Cortes on the model of Plutarch's Lives. Paul Cartledge of the University of Cambridge says:
Like a self-proclaimed latter-day Plutarch, Lyons boldly goes where Alexander the Great of Macedon and Hernán Cortés of Castile blazed their respective trails, comparing and contrasting the motives, methods, and achievements of the two conquering empire-builders who changed the political map of the world, and doing so within an illuminating overall moral-philosophical frame of reference and evaluation.
Professor Lyons has published a new book comparing Alexander the Great with Hernan Cortes on the model of Plutarch's Lives. Paul Cartledge of the University of Cambridge says:
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