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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... Cyrus , the author's sole work of fiction . He must have read it first as history . Later when in Persia he would have learned of some discrepancies ; but that the real Cyrus had died in battle , instead of in Socratic composure ...
... Cyrus , the author's sole work of fiction . He must have read it first as history . Later when in Persia he would have learned of some discrepancies ; but that the real Cyrus had died in battle , instead of in Socratic composure ...
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... Cyrus . Trustingly he arrived . " They embraced each other with joy , as well they might when they had had no hope of ever meeting again . ' She told him of Cyrus ' compassion and self - command , and begged it should be repaid with ...
... Cyrus . Trustingly he arrived . " They embraced each other with joy , as well they might when they had had no hope of ever meeting again . ' She told him of Cyrus ' compassion and self - command , and begged it should be repaid with ...
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... Cyrus ' bones scattered about . Alexander would have honoured him even as an enemy ( he would probably have preferred him to Darius ) ; the callous insult to his ( and Xenophon's ) ideal hero enraged him . The shrine's guardian magi ...
... Cyrus ' bones scattered about . Alexander would have honoured him even as an enemy ( he would probably have preferred him to Darius ) ; the callous insult to his ( and Xenophon's ) ideal hero enraged him . The shrine's guardian magi ...
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