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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... known and conquered , then on and on among those he had never seen and only known from rumour , till it reached the Far East which , having been taught that the landmass ended with India , he had not believed to exist . Greek variants ...
... known and conquered , then on and on among those he had never seen and only known from rumour , till it reached the Far East which , having been taught that the landmass ended with India , he had not believed to exist . Greek variants ...
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... known Persians as long as he could remember , not as propaganda monsters but observable humans and friends ; with the boys of Artabazus ' large family he must often have played . Though Macedonian was a broad Doric patois , the court ...
... known Persians as long as he could remember , not as propaganda monsters but observable humans and friends ; with the boys of Artabazus ' large family he must often have played . Though Macedonian was a broad Doric patois , the court ...
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... known of the plot to kill Alexander , nothing of the means designed . Its known instigator was an obscure Dymnus , elsewhere unmentioned , apparently on the fringe of Alexander's personal circle , who complained of some unspecified ...
... known of the plot to kill Alexander , nothing of the means designed . Its known instigator was an obscure Dymnus , elsewhere unmentioned , apparently on the fringe of Alexander's personal circle , who complained of some unspecified ...
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