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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... head ; perhaps mistaking his helmet for a tortoise whose shell it wished to crack , like the bald head of the poet Aeschylus , who died from the similar misjudgment of an eagle . Though unharmed Alexander asked the seer Aristander to ...
... head ; perhaps mistaking his helmet for a tortoise whose shell it wished to crack , like the bald head of the poet Aeschylus , who died from the similar misjudgment of an eagle . Though unharmed Alexander asked the seer Aristander to ...
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... head of Alexander from Pergamon , second century BC . Museum of Archaeology , Istanbul . Photo : Christina Gascoigne 8 Reconstruction of Alexander's funeral car by Edward Mortelmans 12 Impression of a quartz ring carved with the head of ...
... head of Alexander from Pergamon , second century BC . Museum of Archaeology , Istanbul . Photo : Christina Gascoigne 8 Reconstruction of Alexander's funeral car by Edward Mortelmans 12 Impression of a quartz ring carved with the head of ...
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... Head of Philip II of Macedon . Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek , Copenhagen 31 Dionysiac thiasos , bell crater from Rhodes ( Athenian style ) . Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum , London 33 Mosaic from Pella . Photo : National ...
... Head of Philip II of Macedon . Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek , Copenhagen 31 Dionysiac thiasos , bell crater from Rhodes ( Athenian style ) . Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum , London 33 Mosaic from Pella . Photo : National ...
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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