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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... Plutarch says that the house and all its contents were presented to Parmenion . Among the palace treasures , a specially precious casket was taken by Alexander to house his copy of the Iliad , edited for him by Aristotle when he was a ...
... Plutarch says that the house and all its contents were presented to Parmenion . Among the palace treasures , a specially precious casket was taken by Alexander to house his copy of the Iliad , edited for him by Aristotle when he was a ...
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... Plutarch has probably preserved an essential truth : ' the poison was water ' . Most likely it was only the water of downstream Euphrates , laden with the untreated excreta of a dozen diseases . But this , of course , is not what Plutarch ...
... Plutarch has probably preserved an essential truth : ' the poison was water ' . Most likely it was only the water of downstream Euphrates , laden with the untreated excreta of a dozen diseases . But this , of course , is not what Plutarch ...
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... Plutarch , Lives : Demosthenes ; Eumenes ; Phocion Plutarch , Moralia : On the Fortune or Virtue of Alexander ; Sayings of Kings and Commanders Strabo , Geography ( Book XV for many quotations from Nearchus ) Athenaeus , The ...
... Plutarch , Lives : Demosthenes ; Eumenes ; Phocion Plutarch , Moralia : On the Fortune or Virtue of Alexander ; Sayings of Kings and Commanders Strabo , Geography ( Book XV for many quotations from Nearchus ) Athenaeus , The ...
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Alexander Alexander's already ancient army Arrian Asia asked Athenian Athens Babylon battle began better brought called campaign carried cause cavalry century command course court danger Darius dead death Demosthenes died doubt enemy evidence face fact father fighting followed force friends gave give given gold Greece Greek hand head held Hephaestion honour horses important Indian killed King knew known land later learned leave lived looked Macedon Macedonian mind murder nature never night offered officers Olympias once ordered Parmenion passed perhaps Persian Philip Philotas Photo plans Plutarch probably Ptolemy reached record remained rest returned river round royal satrap says seems seen sent ships showed side soldiers soon sources story taken thought told took troops turned walls whole wound young