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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... Callisthenes is said , very plausibly , to have remarked , ' depends on me and my history , ' This is true , and one of the difficulties in the search for Alexander is that this history only survives in some ten informative quotations ...
... Callisthenes is said , very plausibly , to have remarked , ' depends on me and my history , ' This is true , and one of the difficulties in the search for Alexander is that this history only survives in some ten informative quotations ...
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... Callisthenes , on the verge of his greatest battle Alexander prayed to the gods to help him ' if he were indeed sprung from Zeus ' ; Callisthenes wrote to please Alexander and he can only have stressed this divine sonship because it was ...
... Callisthenes , on the verge of his greatest battle Alexander prayed to the gods to help him ' if he were indeed sprung from Zeus ' ; Callisthenes wrote to please Alexander and he can only have stressed this divine sonship because it was ...
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... Callisthenes's comforts had counted for much as Alexander despaired of life after murdering Cleitus ; fellow - Greeks and philosophers later disagreed , unwilling to believe that Aristotle's kinsman would ever have consoled a man whom ...
... Callisthenes's comforts had counted for much as Alexander despaired of life after murdering Cleitus ; fellow - Greeks and philosophers later disagreed , unwilling to believe that Aristotle's kinsman would ever have consoled a man whom ...
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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