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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... Persian Gulf and Bactrians from outer Iran to Asia Minor . But skills and ... king had been known to maintain a Babylonian mistress . In the capitals of ... Persian Babylon , especially , was an integrated world . This integration did not ...
... Persian Gulf and Bactrians from outer Iran to Asia Minor . But skills and ... king had been known to maintain a Babylonian mistress . In the capitals of ... Persian Babylon , especially , was an integrated world . This integration did not ...
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... Persian friends how Cyrus's memory was revered by Persians , and soon he would show a concern for Cyrus in his own publicity . But only in his Romance is he said to have issued a proclamation to all Persians as the new King 273.
... Persian friends how Cyrus's memory was revered by Persians , and soon he would show a concern for Cyrus in his own publicity . But only in his Romance is he said to have issued a proclamation to all Persians as the new King 273.
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... king's oriental plans : he was a valuable man and a wily one . He therefore ... Persian diadem , girdle and striped tunic , he wielded a golden sceptre ... Persian Immortals stood behind them , flaunting their glorious embroidery and ...
... king's oriental plans : he was a valuable man and a wily one . He therefore ... Persian diadem , girdle and striped tunic , he wielded a golden sceptre ... Persian Immortals stood behind them , flaunting their glorious embroidery and ...
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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