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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... Greece . It also ignores the recent rise of his enemy Attalus to high military rank and the status of royal father - in - law ; favours which may well have seemed like rewards for the injury on which Pausanias had brooded for long ...
... Greece . It also ignores the recent rise of his enemy Attalus to high military rank and the status of royal father - in - law ; favours which may well have seemed like rewards for the injury on which Pausanias had brooded for long ...
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... Greece . The Greek cities of Asia were tacitly written off to bondage ; Demosthenes ' democratic principles were strictly parochial . So eagerly did Darius respond that his account rolls , when captured later in Sardis , showed ...
... Greece . The Greek cities of Asia were tacitly written off to bondage ; Demosthenes ' democratic principles were strictly parochial . So eagerly did Darius respond that his account rolls , when captured later in Sardis , showed ...
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... Greece , had hired , also from Greece , some 50,000 mercenaries . Their general was Memnon , a veteran of Ochus ' reign . He had been involved in the satraps ' revolt and spent his exile in Macedon , where he had studied his hosts ...
... Greece , had hired , also from Greece , some 50,000 mercenaries . Their general was Memnon , a veteran of Ochus ' reign . He had been involved in the satraps ' revolt and spent his exile in Macedon , where he had studied his hosts ...
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