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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... Makran can only by understood by an explorer , for in the same mood , men have tried to climb the steepest face of Everest at the wrong season of the year or to conquer the North Pole in the inadequate care of a hot air balloon . There ...
... Makran can only by understood by an explorer , for in the same mood , men have tried to climb the steepest face of Everest at the wrong season of the year or to conquer the North Pole in the inadequate care of a hot air balloon . There ...
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... Makran and daily despairing of contact with his fleet and his main supplies . It never occurred to him to blame ... Makran been no more fearsome than the desert which led to Siwah . But the fleet delayed , and the march through Makran ...
... Makran and daily despairing of contact with his fleet and his main supplies . It never occurred to him to blame ... Makran been no more fearsome than the desert which led to Siwah . But the fleet delayed , and the march through Makran ...
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... Makran march has been brilliantly discussed in the one outstanding modern article on Alexander : H. Strasburger Hermes ( 1952 ) pp . 456ff . and his note in Hermes ( 1954 ) p . 251. I agree that A. 6.23 = Ptol .; A. 6.24-25 S. 15.2.6 ...
... Makran march has been brilliantly discussed in the one outstanding modern article on Alexander : H. Strasburger Hermes ( 1952 ) pp . 456ff . and his note in Hermes ( 1954 ) p . 251. I agree that A. 6.23 = Ptol .; A. 6.24-25 S. 15.2.6 ...
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Preface | 133 |
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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