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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... Peucestas , Leonnatus , and Abreas , a tried hero whose exploits had been recognized with double pay . The men below , seeing them stand on the wall a mark for every missile , began crowding up the ladder . Alexander had worked his ...
... Peucestas , Leonnatus , and Abreas , a tried hero whose exploits had been recognized with double pay . The men below , seeing them stand on the wall a mark for every missile , began crowding up the ladder . Alexander had worked his ...
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... Peucestas , who was already thoroughly Persianized , spoke fluent Persian , and became highly esteemed . Curtius ' version was clearly concocted a very long way from Persia . But calumny often exploits a scrap of truth , and it may be a ...
... Peucestas , who was already thoroughly Persianized , spoke fluent Persian , and became highly esteemed . Curtius ' version was clearly concocted a very long way from Persia . But calumny often exploits a scrap of truth , and it may be a ...
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... Peucestas had arrived with his high - grade Persian troops ; promptly , and it seems with no opposition , Alexander began assigning them to units under a mixed officer corps of Persians and Macedonians . Troops from the satrapies of ...
... Peucestas had arrived with his high - grade Persian troops ; promptly , and it seems with no opposition , Alexander began assigning them to units under a mixed officer corps of Persians and Macedonians . Troops from the satrapies of ...
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