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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... command included an unerring instinct for rare moments when commands will be disregarded with consequent loss of face ; but for the rest of his life , he seldom refused the petition of a Theban ; if he found one serving as a Persian ...
... command included an unerring instinct for rare moments when commands will be disregarded with consequent loss of face ; but for the rest of his life , he seldom refused the petition of a Theban ; if he found one serving as a Persian ...
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... command . If the young King's rejection of his advice was stressed in later chronicles for expedient reasons , this is no proof that such incidents were fictitious . They suggest a familiar human pattern . Par menion was now in his ...
... command . If the young King's rejection of his advice was stressed in later chronicles for expedient reasons , this is no proof that such incidents were fictitious . They suggest a familiar human pattern . Par menion was now in his ...
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... command of his finest striking force , the Companion Cavalry . Hephaestion had proved himself in command , and it would probably have been Alexander's choice to put the whole corps under a man in whom he had perfect trust . But he was ...
... command of his finest striking force , the Companion Cavalry . Hephaestion had proved himself in command , and it would probably have been Alexander's choice to put the whole corps under a man in whom he had perfect trust . But he was ...
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