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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... Ammon ; his harbinger would be a monstrous serpent . It appeared , startling the court . Next night , Nectanebo put on the ram - horned mask of Ammon and fulfilled his own prediction . The stars were about to sign a portentous birth ...
... Ammon ; his harbinger would be a monstrous serpent . It appeared , startling the court . Next night , Nectanebo put on the ram - horned mask of Ammon and fulfilled his own prediction . The stars were about to sign a portentous birth ...
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... Ammon . He was their common ancestor , and therefore Alexander's . But Arrian adds that he went ' hoping to know more truly about himself , or at any rate to say he did ' . He turned from the coast to the dangerous inland route , where ...
... Ammon . He was their common ancestor , and therefore Alexander's . But Arrian adds that he went ' hoping to know more truly about himself , or at any rate to say he did ' . He turned from the coast to the dangerous inland route , where ...
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... Ammon's oracle at Siwah , asking for Hephaestion to be granted divine honours . ( Hence of course the priesthood . ) It was more than an aggrandizement of the dead . How else could the deified son of Ammon be reunited , in the world to ...
... Ammon's oracle at Siwah , asking for Hephaestion to be granted divine honours . ( Hence of course the priesthood . ) It was more than an aggrandizement of the dead . How else could the deified son of Ammon be reunited , in the world to ...
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Alexander Alexander's already ancient army Arrian Asia asked Athenian Athens Babylon battle began better brought called campaign carried cause cavalry century command course court danger Darius dead death Demosthenes died doubt enemy evidence face fact father fighting followed force friends gave give given gold Greece Greek hand head held Hephaestion honour horses important Indian killed King knew known land later learned leave lived looked Macedon Macedonian mind murder nature never night offered officers Olympias once ordered Parmenion passed perhaps Persian Philip Philotas Photo plans Plutarch probably Ptolemy reached record remained rest returned river round royal satrap says seems seen sent ships showed side soldiers soon sources story taken thought told took troops turned walls whole wound young