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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... campaign successively under Darius and Alexander , whose eager welcome when they met again many years later points to warm childhood memories . He had thus known Persians as long as he could remember , not as propaganda monsters but ...
... campaign successively under Darius and Alexander , whose eager welcome when they met again many years later points to warm childhood memories . He had thus known Persians as long as he could remember , not as propaganda monsters but ...
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... campaign against the Maedi had led him up that way ; he would have pressed on then , had his father not recalled him ' lest he should undertake too much ' . His strategic sense had been sound . He would now square the account , and ...
... campaign against the Maedi had led him up that way ; he would have pressed on then , had his father not recalled him ' lest he should undertake too much ' . His strategic sense had been sound . He would now square the account , and ...
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... campaign wives , and presumed that his son would choose in due course a proper consort . The Persians , their royal house passed by , must have raised their eyebrows . ( The high- born family of Artabazus remained tranquil , suggesting ...
... campaign wives , and presumed that his son would choose in due course a proper consort . The Persians , their royal house passed by , must have raised their eyebrows . ( The high- born family of Artabazus remained tranquil , suggesting ...
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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