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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... Babylon , Susa and Persepolis , the rich heart of the empire , was left open to Alexander . The choice of objective did not take him long . By now he must have talked through his interpreters with captive Persians , and formed his own ...
... Babylon , Susa and Persepolis , the rich heart of the empire , was left open to Alexander . The choice of objective did not take him long . By now he must have talked through his interpreters with captive Persians , and formed his own ...
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... Babylon ; as the money came in , he would develop his personal style . From the throne he granted Babylon the status it had had before Xerxes crushed it and threw down the ziggurat of Bel . The priests of the god were now given much ...
... Babylon ; as the money came in , he would develop his personal style . From the throne he granted Babylon the status it had had before Xerxes crushed it and threw down the ziggurat of Bel . The priests of the god were now given much ...
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... Babylon , by Homeric fire . The embalmed body was entrusted to the convoy of Perdiccas , the new Chiliarch , a connection of the Macedonian royal house and bearing one of its traditional names . Alexander himself , restless to be gone ...
... Babylon , by Homeric fire . The embalmed body was entrusted to the convoy of Perdiccas , the new Chiliarch , a connection of the Macedonian royal house and bearing one of its traditional names . Alexander himself , restless to be gone ...
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