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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... Philip a really promising candidate , and wrote at some length to tell him so . Philip was indeed well qualified for the task . Had he not sired a genius , he would be remembered as the most brilliant general of antiquity next to Julius ...
... Philip a really promising candidate , and wrote at some length to tell him so . Philip was indeed well qualified for the task . Had he not sired a genius , he would be remembered as the most brilliant general of antiquity next to Julius ...
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... Philip's peace terms were conveyed to Athens by his aristocratic captive , whom he had freed and asked to supper . The despairing city had awaited only a barbaric horde swarming through Attica to the sack , Demosthenes having assured ...
... Philip's peace terms were conveyed to Athens by his aristocratic captive , whom he had freed and asked to supper . The despairing city had awaited only a barbaric horde swarming through Attica to the sack , Demosthenes having assured ...
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... Philip found out . And here the Plutarch manuscript has a tantalizing short gap . After the break , it says Philip went to Alexander's room , taking with him Philotas son of Parmenion , one of Alexander's close friends , and gave him a ...
... Philip found out . And here the Plutarch manuscript has a tantalizing short gap . After the break , it says Philip went to Alexander's room , taking with him Philotas son of Parmenion , one of Alexander's close friends , and gave him a ...
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