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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... Aristobulus the architect described in his memoirs how eager Alexander had been to visit Cyrus ' tomb as soon as he had conquered Asia . Presumably he did , while near by at Persepolis , for Aristobulus was then commissioned to ...
... Aristobulus the architect described in his memoirs how eager Alexander had been to visit Cyrus ' tomb as soon as he had conquered Asia . Presumably he did , while near by at Persepolis , for Aristobulus was then commissioned to ...
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... Aristobulus describes in detail how he was instructed to make all good exactly as he had first noted it , even to the ribbons spread upon the dais , and then to wall up the doorway . A later generation of robbers had to burrow under its ...
... Aristobulus describes in detail how he was instructed to make all good exactly as he had first noted it , even to the ribbons spread upon the dais , and then to wall up the doorway . A later generation of robbers had to burrow under its ...
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... Aristobulus averred that Alexander also linked himself with the older royal line of Ochus , by marrying his daughter Parysatis . If he did , it is unlikely to have been on this occasion , unless on a later day of the feast . He was ...
... Aristobulus averred that Alexander also linked himself with the older royal line of Ochus , by marrying his daughter Parysatis . If he did , it is unlikely to have been on this occasion , unless on a later day of the feast . He was ...
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