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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... Bucephalas was twelve years old . The horse must therefore have been trained , and no doubt for war . What this entailed in ancient Greece is vividly described in Xenophon's treatise On Horseman ship . Neither saddle nor stirrups were ...
... Bucephalas was twelve years old . The horse must therefore have been trained , and no doubt for war . What this entailed in ancient Greece is vividly described in Xenophon's treatise On Horseman ship . Neither saddle nor stirrups were ...
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... Bucephalas ' penultimate appear ance in history . While being led through the woods by the royal squires , whose charge the King's horses were , he and the rest of the string were carried off by local raiders . He was now twenty - five ...
... Bucephalas ' penultimate appear ance in history . While being led through the woods by the royal squires , whose charge the King's horses were , he and the rest of the string were carried off by local raiders . He was now twenty - five ...
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... Bucephala , in memory of his horse Bucephalas who died there , not wounded at all but from exhaustion and old age . For he was about thirty years old and fell victim to fatigue ; but till then had shared with Alexander many labours and ...
... Bucephala , in memory of his horse Bucephalas who died there , not wounded at all but from exhaustion and old age . For he was about thirty years old and fell victim to fatigue ; but till then had shared with Alexander many labours and ...
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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