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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... Attalus in the midst of his retainers , Pausanias went to the King demanding vengeance . Since Attalus could not legally be executed without a public trial even had Philip wished it , he naturally refused ; but , Pausanias being an ...
... Attalus in the midst of his retainers , Pausanias went to the King demanding vengeance . Since Attalus could not legally be executed without a public trial even had Philip wished it , he naturally refused ; but , Pausanias being an ...
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... Attalus ' head . Noisy chaos broke out . Attalus threw his own goblet back . During the brawl , words passed between father and son which have not come down to us . Alexander's , whatever they were , caused Philip to draw his sword ( he ...
... Attalus ' head . Noisy chaos broke out . Attalus threw his own goblet back . During the brawl , words passed between father and son which have not come down to us . Alexander's , whatever they were , caused Philip to draw his sword ( he ...
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... Attalus ' officers and to the other general of the expeditionary force , Parmenion . The case of Attalus is important . It offered Alexander a precedent , which would become crucial at a later crisis in his career . Certainly at this ...
... Attalus ' officers and to the other general of the expeditionary force , Parmenion . The case of Attalus is important . It offered Alexander a precedent , which would become crucial at a later crisis in his career . Certainly at this ...
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