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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... fighting Macedonians had the traditional right to choose in such circumstances a king from the members of the royal house ; a fact of primary importance to the country's history . It was a time of civil feud and foreign invasion . A ...
... fighting Macedonians had the traditional right to choose in such circumstances a king from the members of the royal house ; a fact of primary importance to the country's history . It was a time of civil feud and foreign invasion . A ...
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... fighting for their pride , the Greeks to humble it . Pride , discipline , morale and the long sarissa carried the phalanx slowly forward . Alexander , watching his time , hurled himself with the Companion Cavalry across the river ...
... fighting for their pride , the Greeks to humble it . Pride , discipline , morale and the long sarissa carried the phalanx slowly forward . Alexander , watching his time , hurled himself with the Companion Cavalry across the river ...
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... fighting for Persia , demanded unconditional surrender . Some straggled off ; one man , an Athenian with a virulent anti - Macedonian record , killed himself ; about 1,500 came in . By then Alexander would have heard of their fidelity ...
... fighting for Persia , demanded unconditional surrender . Some straggled off ; one man , an Athenian with a virulent anti - Macedonian record , killed himself ; about 1,500 came in . By then Alexander would have heard of their fidelity ...
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