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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... eunuch ; lamented at his death by the sages Aristo and Aflatun ( Aristotle and Plato ) ; the Happy World - Possessor , whose cavalcade is like a rose garden . No victor in world history has left an image comparable with this in the land ...
... eunuch ; lamented at his death by the sages Aristo and Aflatun ( Aristotle and Plato ) ; the Happy World - Possessor , whose cavalcade is like a rose garden . No victor in world history has left an image comparable with this in the land ...
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... eunuch vizier , Bagoas , forfeit at his death to Darius , was found to contain a thousand talents ' worth of rich robes alone . Plutarch says that the house and all its contents were presented to Parmenion . Among the palace treasures ...
... eunuch vizier , Bagoas , forfeit at his death to Darius , was found to contain a thousand talents ' worth of rich robes alone . Plutarch says that the house and all its contents were presented to Parmenion . Among the palace treasures ...
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... eunuch to rule . This at a court where , not two decades back , a eunuch Grand Vizier had been supreme , and had killed two kings ! It is seldom that the process of blackwashing Alexander can be traced in such close detail . At ...
... eunuch to rule . This at a court where , not two decades back , a eunuch Grand Vizier had been supreme , and had killed two kings ! It is seldom that the process of blackwashing Alexander can be traced in such close detail . At ...
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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