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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... Curtius says they had been branded too . Both sources agree that Alexander wept for them . He offered to give them transport home and provide for their remaining lives . Conferring , they decided that to return to their cities as ...
... Curtius says they had been branded too . Both sources agree that Alexander wept for them . He offered to give them transport home and provide for their remaining lives . Conferring , they decided that to return to their cities as ...
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... Curtius without comment , explanation or drama , deserves very serious attention . Why bother with either letter , when Parmenion was already defenceless among his killers ? Etiquette demanded that the royal dispatch be read before ...
... Curtius without comment , explanation or drama , deserves very serious attention . Why bother with either letter , when Parmenion was already defenceless among his killers ? Etiquette demanded that the royal dispatch be read before ...
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... Curtius ' version was clearly concocted a very long way from Persia . But calumny often exploits a scrap of truth , and it may be a fact that Bagoas took some part in Orxines ' trial ; he had known , and could identify , Darius III's ...
... Curtius ' version was clearly concocted a very long way from Persia . But calumny often exploits a scrap of truth , and it may be a fact that Bagoas took some part in Orxines ' trial ; he had known , and could identify , Darius III's ...
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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