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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... Ptol.'s malice as it also appears in DS 25.5 ( DS - Cleit . did not use Ptol . ) ; perhaps it was true , or in Call . , and thus inspired Ptol . for his lies at Thebes . Razing : Vitruv . 2.8.10-14 , Plin . NH 35.172 against A. 1.24.6 ...
... Ptol.'s malice as it also appears in DS 25.5 ( DS - Cleit . did not use Ptol . ) ; perhaps it was true , or in Call . , and thus inspired Ptol . for his lies at Thebes . Razing : Vitruv . 2.8.10-14 , Plin . NH 35.172 against A. 1.24.6 ...
Page 537
... Ptol.-A. 5.15.1 omits him - deliberately ? In my opinion , Ptol.-A. never mentions the Foot Companions in battle ( contra DS 88.2 , QC 8.14.16 on their sarissas against elephants ) . At A. 5.12.2 I believe Cleitus's and Coenus's ...
... Ptol.-A. 5.15.1 omits him - deliberately ? In my opinion , Ptol.-A. never mentions the Foot Companions in battle ( contra DS 88.2 , QC 8.14.16 on their sarissas against elephants ) . At A. 5.12.2 I believe Cleitus's and Coenus's ...
Page 539
... Ptol . omits ( Cleit.'s ? ) flattering affair of Ptol.'s cure : QC 9.8.25 , DS 103.6 , 5.15.2.7 . Detachment of Craterus : A. 6.15.5 , picked up again at A. 6.17.3 ( despite Craterus's job at 6.15.7 ) . Conceivably , the massacre of the ...
... Ptol . omits ( Cleit.'s ? ) flattering affair of Ptol.'s cure : QC 9.8.25 , DS 103.6 , 5.15.2.7 . Detachment of Craterus : A. 6.15.5 , picked up again at A. 6.17.3 ( despite Craterus's job at 6.15.7 ) . Conceivably , the massacre of the ...
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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