Alexander the GreatAllen Lane, 1975 - 568 pages Robin Lane Fox's accessible and erudite life of Alexander the Great searches through the mass of conflicting evidence and legend to focus on the living actuality of the man and his experience. |
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Page 157
... Aegean by summoning most of the hired Greeks from the fleet . On his deathbed , Memnon had appointed his Persian nephew and his deputy as temporary admirals and the pair of them had been fighting on boldly . By August , they had finally ...
... Aegean by summoning most of the hired Greeks from the fleet . On his deathbed , Memnon had appointed his Persian nephew and his deputy as temporary admirals and the pair of them had been fighting on boldly . By August , they had finally ...
Page 189
... Aegean and southern Greece was unsettled by Sparta . Only one of his Companions is said to have backed his opinion in council . A tempting alternative was not hard to find . While Tyre still stood Darius sent a second communication ...
... Aegean and southern Greece was unsettled by Sparta . Only one of his Companions is said to have backed his opinion in council . A tempting alternative was not hard to find . While Tyre still stood Darius sent a second communication ...
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... Aegean , so early in the season , one of his admirals sailed in to deliver prisoners and report on his campaign ; now that the Cypriot , Rhodian and Phoenician fleets had changed sides , the news could only be welcome . The Persian ...
... Aegean , so early in the season , one of his admirals sailed in to deliver prisoners and report on his campaign ; now that the Cypriot , Rhodian and Phoenician fleets had changed sides , the news could only be welcome . The Persian ...
Table des matières
List of Maps | 9 |
Preface | 133 |
PART | 157 |
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Achilles Aegean Alex Alex.'s Alexander Alexander's death Alexandria allies already Ammon ander Antipater Aristob Aristotle army Asia Athenian Athens Babylon battle Berve s.v. Bessus Callisthenes camp cavalry centre chariot Cleit command Companion Cavalry court Craterus Darius Darius's desert Dionysus east Egypt Egyptian elephants empire enemy exiles father favour fleet Foot Companions friends gods Greece Greek Greek cities Hamadan Harpalus Hephaistion Heracles hero Hindu Kush historians Homeric honour horsemen horses hundred Indian Indus infantry Iran Iranian king's known land later Lyncestian Macedonian Makran mercenaries miles murder native Nearchus never nomads numbers officers Olympias once ordered oriental Oxus palace Parmenion past Perdiccas perhaps Persepolis Persian king Pharaoh Philip Philotas plans probably proskynesis Ptol Ptolemy river road route royal sarissas satrap sent Shield Bearers ships Siwah Sogdian story Susa temple tribes troops Tyre victory wrote Zeus