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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... told so . That he was used , though not by Alexander , there is no need to doubt . This was a time when most Athenian politicians were men on whose unsupported word one would not convict a dog . When , however , they remind their public ...
... told so . That he was used , though not by Alexander , there is no need to doubt . This was a time when most Athenian politicians were men on whose unsupported word one would not convict a dog . When , however , they remind their public ...
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... told of his achievements , and if he did not get enough he asked for more . No doubt hostile propagandists made the most of it ; but it would be foolish to reject Plutarch's state- ment which , though citing no good source , has so much ...
... told of his achievements , and if he did not get enough he asked for more . No doubt hostile propagandists made the most of it ; but it would be foolish to reject Plutarch's state- ment which , though citing no good source , has so much ...
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... told , ' Something very grave . ' His only outward response was to express respect for the seer's honesty . Aristobulus said in his memoirs that Peithagoras himself had told him this . Ever since Hephaestion died and he hanged the ...
... told , ' Something very grave . ' His only outward response was to express respect for the seer's honesty . Aristobulus said in his memoirs that Peithagoras himself had told him this . Ever since Hephaestion died and he hanged the ...
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