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 87
... Perdiccas acted without orders and took it into his head to attack the Thebans ' stockade that battle was joined at all . For Perdiccas tried an unofficial raid and was ' wounded badly ' , and ' almost stranded ' ; only when the Thebans ...
... Perdiccas acted without orders and took it into his head to attack the Thebans ' stockade that battle was joined at all . For Perdiccas tried an unofficial raid and was ' wounded badly ' , and ' almost stranded ' ; only when the Thebans ...
Page 468
... Perdiccas after they turned against Antipater ; it stresses Perdiccas as Alexander's heir , even as his chosen husband for Roxane , and denounces Antipater's family as Alexander's poisoners . Perdiccas cannot , therefore , have recently ...
... Perdiccas after they turned against Antipater ; it stresses Perdiccas as Alexander's heir , even as his chosen husband for Roxane , and denounces Antipater's family as Alexander's poisoners . Perdiccas cannot , therefore , have recently ...
Page 473
... Perdiccas , Leonnatus or the elderly Polyperchon claimed royal blood through their local dynasties in high- land Macedonia ; their claims were remote , had not Philip's bastard son Arrhidaeus been the only male alive in Alexander's ...
... Perdiccas , Leonnatus or the elderly Polyperchon claimed royal blood through their local dynasties in high- land Macedonia ; their claims were remote , had not Philip's bastard son Arrhidaeus been the only male alive in Alexander's ...
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