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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... Ammon , a ram - headed god who was worshipped in the oasis of Siwah on the remote western border of Egypt and Libya ... Ammon's oasis , it was nothing easily satisfied . In the fullest surviving account of his motives , given by Arrian ...
... Ammon , a ram - headed god who was worshipped in the oasis of Siwah on the remote western border of Egypt and Libya ... Ammon's oasis , it was nothing easily satisfied . In the fullest surviving account of his motives , given by Arrian ...
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... Ammon had found his most able publicist . Pindar had visited the King of Cyrene to write a hymn in his honour and had been so impressed with Zeus Ammon that he had set up the god's statue in his home town of Thebes on his return and ...
... Ammon had found his most able publicist . Pindar had visited the King of Cyrene to write a hymn in his honour and had been so impressed with Zeus Ammon that he had set up the god's statue in his home town of Thebes on his return and ...
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... Ammon had bidden him honour ' , and did the same on the following day , this time to a different set of gods ; evidently he had asked the oracle which gods he should propitiate at particular points on his journey eastwards , a request ...
... Ammon had bidden him honour ' , and did the same on the following day , this time to a different set of gods ; evidently he had asked the oracle which gods he should propitiate at particular points on his journey eastwards , a request ...
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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