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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... Persian high com mand , traditionally in the centre , rescuing some of his own centre assault troops who were hard pressed . The scrimmage on the steep churned - up bank was for some time indecisive , the Macedonians being faced with ...
... Persian high com mand , traditionally in the centre , rescuing some of his own centre assault troops who were hard pressed . The scrimmage on the steep churned - up bank was for some time indecisive , the Macedonians being faced with ...
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... Persian bride but , automatically , a Persian court ; over and above which , he had introduced Persian soldiers into the most exclusive regiments . The Macedonians began to feel slighted . He was , and ought to remain , their Alexander ...
... Persian bride but , automatically , a Persian court ; over and above which , he had introduced Persian soldiers into the most exclusive regiments . The Macedonians began to feel slighted . He was , and ought to remain , their Alexander ...
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... Persian cavalry commander , at Issus , 92-5 ; at Gaugamela , 118 , 124 , 134-5 ; and Darius ' murder , 136-7 ; surrenders to Alexander , 136–7 ; 145 , 149 Naksh - i - Rustam , site of Persian royal tombs , [ 130 ] Nearchus , Cretan ...
... Persian cavalry commander , at Issus , 92-5 ; at Gaugamela , 118 , 124 , 134-5 ; and Darius ' murder , 136-7 ; surrenders to Alexander , 136–7 ; 145 , 149 Naksh - i - Rustam , site of Persian royal tombs , [ 130 ] Nearchus , Cretan ...
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