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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... Aristotle son of Nicomachus , ' thin legged and small - eyed ' and as yet unknown for his philosophical publications . ' He taught him writing , Greek , Hebrew , Babylonian and Latin . He taught him the nature of the sea and the winds ...
... Aristotle son of Nicomachus , ' thin legged and small - eyed ' and as yet unknown for his philosophical publications . ' He taught him writing , Greek , Hebrew , Babylonian and Latin . He taught him the nature of the sea and the winds ...
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... Aristotle's political thought was formed from life in a Greek city , and it was these same Greek cities that his pupil planted from the Nile to the slopes of the Himalayas , where they lasted and mattered far longer than any age of ...
... Aristotle's political thought was formed from life in a Greek city , and it was these same Greek cities that his pupil planted from the Nile to the slopes of the Himalayas , where they lasted and mattered far longer than any age of ...
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... Aristotle's stay were only memorable for first loves and physical pleasure . There is a curious sidelight on Alexander's progress , a letter to him from the elderly Athenian Isocrates , who had corresponded with Philip and had hoped ...
... Aristotle's stay were only memorable for first loves and physical pleasure . There is a curious sidelight on Alexander's progress , a letter to him from the elderly Athenian Isocrates , who had corresponded with Philip and had hoped ...
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