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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... dead man's kinsman or tribal chief , devised a black farce by way of retribution . He got Pausanias dead drunk at his house , threw him out in the stable yard and invited the slaves to rape him . Unable to kill Attalus in the midst of ...
... dead man's kinsman or tribal chief , devised a black farce by way of retribution . He got Pausanias dead drunk at his house , threw him out in the stable yard and invited the slaves to rape him . Unable to kill Attalus in the midst of ...
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... dead were burned . This labour , carried out on pyres whose only fuel was wood , must have called for strong stomachs in the soldiers of the ancient world . Athenian casualties numbered more than a thousand . ( Our age of firearms has ...
... dead were burned . This labour , carried out on pyres whose only fuel was wood , must have called for strong stomachs in the soldiers of the ancient world . Athenian casualties numbered more than a thousand . ( Our age of firearms has ...
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... dead man , but most to Eumenes , whom he suspected of rejoicing . Considering his state of mind , Eumenes must have wondered how soon he would wake up one morning convinced that he knew the murderer . The secretary , a prudent man of ...
... dead man , but most to Eumenes , whom he suspected of rejoicing . Considering his state of mind , Eumenes must have wondered how soon he would wake up one morning convinced that he knew the murderer . The secretary , a prudent man of ...
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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