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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... Darius encamped to the east at Sochoi . Neither knew the other's whereabouts . When Darius descended into Issus , he found the Macedonian invalids whom Alexander had already abandoned . He was now some fifteen miles north of Alexander ...
... Darius encamped to the east at Sochoi . Neither knew the other's whereabouts . When Darius descended into Issus , he found the Macedonian invalids whom Alexander had already abandoned . He was now some fifteen miles north of Alexander ...
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... Darius's bath , they could lead him forwards to his rightful prize , a Companion reminding him that Darius's bath was in future to be known as Alexander's . On the threshold of the royal tent , Alexander stood surprised , struck by a ...
... Darius's bath , they could lead him forwards to his rightful prize , a Companion reminding him that Darius's bath was in future to be known as Alexander's . On the threshold of the royal tent , Alexander stood surprised , struck by a ...
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... Darius's peace offers , a third and final one is recorded while Alexander delayed at Tyre ; this is almost certainly wrong , but it is likely that Darius did send a message , not of peace , but of his readiness for battle , thus ...
... Darius's peace offers , a third and final one is recorded while Alexander delayed at Tyre ; this is almost certainly wrong , but it is likely that Darius did send a message , not of peace , but of his readiness for battle , thus ...
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