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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... garrison within it . Elated by this news , and well supplied with funds , Demosthenes sent Thebes a large consignment of arms . Continuing to assure the Athenians that Alexander was a strutting boy , he urged them to join the war . They ...
... garrison within it . Elated by this news , and well supplied with funds , Demosthenes sent Thebes a large consignment of arms . Continuing to assure the Athenians that Alexander was a strutting boy , he urged them to join the war . They ...
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... garrison , trapped inside the Cadmea . This , as can still be seen , was no acropolis perched on natural rock ; it relied for defence on its massive walls . For the next sequence of events , which Arrian gives in vivid detail , he ...
... garrison , trapped inside the Cadmea . This , as can still be seen , was no acropolis perched on natural rock ; it relied for defence on its massive walls . For the next sequence of events , which Arrian gives in vivid detail , he ...
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... garrison was there for protection as well as for control ; the streets were properly laid out , there would be a ... garrison . In later days , if discontent broke out it was in the garrisons ; they had no real stake in the place , and a ...
... garrison was there for protection as well as for control ; the streets were properly laid out , there would be a ... garrison . In later days , if discontent broke out it was in the garrisons ; they had no real stake in the place , and a ...
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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