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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... Oxus through fifty miles of pebbled desert . The same troops and horses who had been freezing a month before now suffered dreadfully from the midsummer heat , un- able to swallow the little water which their guides had advised them to ...
... Oxus through fifty miles of pebbled desert . The same troops and horses who had been freezing a month before now suffered dreadfully from the midsummer heat , un- able to swallow the little water which their guides had advised them to ...
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... Oxus , he quartered for the winter at Balkh , where he could only ponder the most conspicuous mishap of the expedition and the decrease in his forces which were now close to a mere 25,000 . Two wounds , a continuing rebellion and ...
... Oxus , he quartered for the winter at Balkh , where he could only ponder the most conspicuous mishap of the expedition and the decrease in his forces which were now close to a mere 25,000 . Two wounds , a continuing rebellion and ...
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... Oxus nomads R. Ghirshman , Persian Art , the Parthians and Sassanids ( 1962 ) Begram ( 1946 ) , esp . on the walls and water , for which cp . H. Fischer Gnomon ( 1966 ) , p . 282 W.B. Henning , Bull SAOS ( 1960 ) , p . 47 ...
... Oxus nomads R. Ghirshman , Persian Art , the Parthians and Sassanids ( 1962 ) Begram ( 1946 ) , esp . on the walls and water , for which cp . H. Fischer Gnomon ( 1966 ) , p . 282 W.B. Henning , Bull SAOS ( 1960 ) , p . 47 ...
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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