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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... once risked his life for , an unimportant court hanger - on called Lysimachus , who styled himself his pedagogue . This was of course a joke , for it was servant's work ; but Lysimachus did take on the humble duties of the man - nanny ...
... once risked his life for , an unimportant court hanger - on called Lysimachus , who styled himself his pedagogue . This was of course a joke , for it was servant's work ; but Lysimachus did take on the humble duties of the man - nanny ...
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... once , accepting their Persianizing as natural ; one from Sparta , imprisoned for a time and then let go ; and an elderly Athenian , son of the famous general , Iphicrates , the guest - friend of his grandparents . This last he charmed ...
... once , accepting their Persianizing as natural ; one from Sparta , imprisoned for a time and then let go ; and an elderly Athenian , son of the famous general , Iphicrates , the guest - friend of his grandparents . This last he charmed ...
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... once he had passed by . Alexander called a war council , aware of the huge task ahead . If they left Tyre two- faced in their rear , he said , the Persians could use it as an invasion base against Greece , where Sparta was now in open ...
... once he had passed by . Alexander called a war council , aware of the huge task ahead . If they left Tyre two- faced in their rear , he said , the Persians could use it as an invasion base against Greece , where Sparta was now in open ...
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