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 78
... Shield - bearers , formerly confined to the king's grooms and bodyguards . The finest foot force in antiquity , they deserve the credit which is given too often to the men with the sarissas . The Shield Bearers were troops with two ...
... Shield - bearers , formerly confined to the king's grooms and bodyguards . The finest foot force in antiquity , they deserve the credit which is given too often to the men with the sarissas . The Shield Bearers were troops with two ...
Page 335
... Shield Bearers , now renamed the Silver Shields because of their smart new silver armour . Initially , this picked unit of veteran infantry had been responsible to a son of Parmenion , but shortly before his family's plot this son had ...
... Shield Bearers , now renamed the Silver Shields because of their smart new silver armour . Initially , this picked unit of veteran infantry had been responsible to a son of Parmenion , but shortly before his family's plot this son had ...
Page 474
... Shield Bearers ; in Thrace , Lysimachus , a former Bodyguard , and in Macedonia whichever king could raise and hold sup- port . They were years of war and murder on the grand scale , and they swept men along with them ; six years after ...
... Shield Bearers ; in Thrace , Lysimachus , a former Bodyguard , and in Macedonia whichever king could raise and hold sup- port . They were years of war and murder on the grand scale , and they swept men along with them ; six years after ...
Table des matières
List of Maps | 9 |
Preface | 133 |
PART | 157 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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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