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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... Companion Cavalry , another son the Shield Bearers ; a nephew , or cousin , led half of the Mounted Scouts , and the leader of the Elimiot foot - brigade was now his son - in - law . Three other infantry officers and a prominent cavalry ...
... Companion Cavalry , another son the Shield Bearers ; a nephew , or cousin , led half of the Mounted Scouts , and the leader of the Elimiot foot - brigade was now his son - in - law . Three other infantry officers and a prominent cavalry ...
Page 160
... Companion cavalry , but in the plains near the city , the Great King took refuge in numbers and consoled himself with counting his summoned troops . A circular enclosure was fenced off , able to hold some 10,000 men at a time . This was ...
... Companion cavalry , but in the plains near the city , the Great King took refuge in numbers and consoled himself with counting his summoned troops . A circular enclosure was fenced off , able to hold some 10,000 men at a time . This was ...
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... Companion cavalry into their customary wedge and showed the nearest foot brigades the way to an offensive against a Persian centre , exposed , disordered and not too heavily his superior in immediate numbers . Like a skilled wing ...
... Companion cavalry into their customary wedge and showed the nearest foot brigades the way to an offensive against a Persian centre , exposed , disordered and not too heavily his superior in immediate numbers . Like a skilled wing ...
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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