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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... Olympias during the actual celebration ; but it may be true . Such things excited her and must have made her ... Olympias has survived which is not stylized to nullity . Her looks Macedon : a highland kingdom of great scenic beauty ...
... Olympias during the actual celebration ; but it may be true . Such things excited her and must have made her ... Olympias has survived which is not stylized to nullity . Her looks Macedon : a highland kingdom of great scenic beauty ...
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... Olympias brought to it a powerful imagination . To the anger and disgust of Philip with his Hellenic aspira- tions , she kept about her the tame snakes of the primitive Thracian cult . She may have had self - induced hallucinations ...
... Olympias brought to it a powerful imagination . To the anger and disgust of Philip with his Hellenic aspira- tions , she kept about her the tame snakes of the primitive Thracian cult . She may have had self - induced hallucinations ...
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... Olympias had persuaded him he was not Philip's son . The mating of gods in physical shape with mortals was as sincere a belief with Greeks as is the Immaculate Conception to Catholics , with the difference that the former was not a ...
... Olympias had persuaded him he was not Philip's son . The mating of gods in physical shape with mortals was as sincere a belief with Greeks as is the Immaculate Conception to Catholics , with the difference that the former was not a ...
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