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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... Hamadan , a long week's march behind his prey and arrived there by mid - June , eager to gather supplies and continue northwards . Even in his haste he found time for two far - reaching changes : the proportion of the palace treasures ...
... Hamadan , a long week's march behind his prey and arrived there by mid - June , eager to gather supplies and continue northwards . Even in his haste he found time for two far - reaching changes : the proportion of the palace treasures ...
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... Hamadan by September ; the camp would reason that Athens had always been their enemy and was now offended by part of the Exiles ' Decree . She was still electing extremists as her yearly generals . There might also be new danger in the ...
... Hamadan by September ; the camp would reason that Athens had always been their enemy and was now offended by part of the Exiles ' Decree . She was still electing extremists as her yearly generals . There might also be new danger in the ...
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... Hamadan would smear the nose of their lion with jam , hoping for children and easy childbirth . Hephaistion had ended his fame as a symbol of fertility . There was no such perspective to comfort Alexander . He was a dis- traught man ...
... Hamadan would smear the nose of their lion with jam , hoping for children and easy childbirth . Hephaistion had ended his fame as a symbol of fertility . There was no such perspective to comfort Alexander . He was a dis- traught man ...
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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