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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... Egypt , where the Macedonian conquest had been hailed as a liberation ; where Alexander had honoured the shrines profaned by a Persian king , and received divinity ; where Ptolemy himself had got rid of a bad governor and was very ...
... Egypt , where the Macedonian conquest had been hailed as a liberation ; where Alexander had honoured the shrines profaned by a Persian king , and received divinity ; where Ptolemy himself had got rid of a bad governor and was very ...
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... Egypt , and the priests of the deified Alexander served his shrine . At last in 89 BC , when the line had grown degenerate , the effete and bloated Ptolemy IX , rejected by his army and needing pay for mercenaries , took the gold ...
... Egypt , and the priests of the deified Alexander served his shrine . At last in 89 BC , when the line had grown degenerate , the effete and bloated Ptolemy IX , rejected by his army and needing pay for mercenaries , took the gold ...
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... Egypt he had no campaigning , only a triumphal progress . Hephaestion with the fleet awaited him at the Delta . The Persian satrap Mazaces , long aware of the Issus débâcle and with no adequate Persian garrison , put a good face on ...
... Egypt he had no campaigning , only a triumphal progress . Hephaestion with the fleet awaited him at the Delta . The Persian satrap Mazaces , long aware of the Issus débâcle and with no adequate Persian garrison , put a good face on ...
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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