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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Page 130
... Greek cities further south , but he had ensured the thanks and loyalty of his new Greek governments behind and around him . There were sound precedents for his method . At Ephesus , at least , Philip's advance force had set up a ...
... Greek cities further south , but he had ensured the thanks and loyalty of his new Greek governments behind and around him . There were sound precedents for his method . At Ephesus , at least , Philip's advance force had set up a ...
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... town by courtesy of a twenty - two - year - old king . Alexander was not the first Greek to be honoured as a god for political favour ; even his father's brief liberation of several Asian Greek cities had been repaid by high religious ...
... town by courtesy of a twenty - two - year - old king . Alexander was not the first Greek to be honoured as a god for political favour ; even his father's brief liberation of several Asian Greek cities had been repaid by high religious ...
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... Greek hymn to Apollo was written by a settler at Susa ; the company of ... cities had nothing to compare with the library and the posts for scholars in ... Greek cities , a ' dish ' , he replied , ' cannot contain a dolphin ' ; these ...
... Greek hymn to Apollo was written by a settler at Susa ; the company of ... cities had nothing to compare with the library and the posts for scholars in ... Greek cities , a ' dish ' , he replied , ' cannot contain a dolphin ' ; these ...
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