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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... chariot by his height and royal robe . Mounted upon the ageing but still spirited Bucephalas ( who probably owed his long life to the light weight of his rider ) Alexander raised the battle paean , and led the yelling cavalry , already ...
... chariot by his height and royal robe . Mounted upon the ageing but still spirited Bucephalas ( who probably owed his long life to the light weight of his rider ) Alexander raised the battle paean , and led the yelling cavalry , already ...
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... chariot and robe had been brought back with the spoils , they were lamenting his death , and the fate they foresaw for themselves . Other eminent Persians had left their women in what then seemed safety at Damascus . Darius , self ...
... chariot and robe had been brought back with the spoils , they were lamenting his death , and the fate they foresaw for themselves . Other eminent Persians had left their women in what then seemed safety at Damascus . Darius , self ...
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... chariot , Darius wheeled it round , snatching the reins dropped by its wounded driver , and was the first to fly . The fall of the charioteer had been seen by neighbouring Persians ; the chariot's flight convinced them that it was the ...
... chariot , Darius wheeled it round , snatching the reins dropped by its wounded driver , and was the first to fly . The fall of the charioteer had been seen by neighbouring Persians ; the chariot's flight convinced them that it was the ...
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