The Nature of AlexanderAllen Lane, 1975 - 240 pages Combines contemporaneous accounts, critically studied legends, reproductions of pertinent artworks, and photographs to provide a full-scale, nonideological biography of the Macedonian conqueror and empire builder. |
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... Achilles , he had traded length of days for it . He had trusted in the gods to keep their bargain ; and , like Achilles , not in vain . Children who had been unborn or in arms when he rode that way alive gaped at a sight they would ...
... Achilles , he had traded length of days for it . He had trusted in the gods to keep their bargain ; and , like Achilles , not in vain . Children who had been unborn or in arms when he rode that way alive gaped at a sight they would ...
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... Achilles . Alexander played his part in the game for life . To the end of his days he kept the Iliad under his pillow , along with the dagger for self - defence which was the commonplace bedroom furniture of a Macedonian king . It seems ...
... Achilles . Alexander played his part in the game for life . To the end of his days he kept the Iliad under his pillow , along with the dagger for self - defence which was the commonplace bedroom furniture of a Macedonian king . It seems ...
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... Achilles ever since he had sat on old Lysimachus ' knee . Patroclus had died ; as far as vengeance could reach , he had been avenged ; the terms of Achilles ' death fate had been fulfilled . While still a boy , Alexander must have known ...
... Achilles ever since he had sat on old Lysimachus ' knee . Patroclus had died ; as far as vengeance could reach , he had been avenged ; the terms of Achilles ' death fate had been fulfilled . While still a boy , Alexander must have known ...
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