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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... Greek doctors passed on their art to their sons . On campaign he studied the animal and plant life , having records kept and specimens sent to Aristotle ; and is said to have released ringed stags to learn their life span ( Plutarch ...
... Greek doctors passed on their art to their sons . On campaign he studied the animal and plant life , having records kept and specimens sent to Aristotle ; and is said to have released ringed stags to learn their life span ( Plutarch ...
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... Greek god whose attributes seemed to fit . There was constant traffic between Greece and Egypt , and the priests could probably converse without interpreters . - - He did not neglect the Greek world , but held ceremonial games , not ...
... Greek god whose attributes seemed to fit . There was constant traffic between Greece and Egypt , and the priests could probably converse without interpreters . - - He did not neglect the Greek world , but held ceremonial games , not ...
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... Greeks , and the thought of Greek lands being some day ruled by a scion of barbarian stock must have been monstrous . Callisthenes adopted an ostentatious austerity of life ; a protest admired by the disaffected . Alexander himself paid ...
... Greeks , and the thought of Greek lands being some day ruled by a scion of barbarian stock must have been monstrous . Callisthenes adopted an ostentatious austerity of life ; a protest admired by the disaffected . Alexander himself paid ...
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