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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... Siwah oasis have been brought to Alexander's notice as the place to find the truth ? Only if Ammon and Siwah are set in context can the motives for the pilgrimage be narrowed to a plausibility ; Ptolemy is known to have added miracles ...
... Siwah oasis have been brought to Alexander's notice as the place to find the truth ? Only if Ammon and Siwah are set in context can the motives for the pilgrimage be narrowed to a plausibility ; Ptolemy is known to have added miracles ...
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... Siwah were said to have prayed that Pindar should receive life's greatest blessings , whereupon , in fulfilment , the poet died peacefully . Pindar , moreover , had honoured connections with the Macedonian kings . Pindar was not the ...
... Siwah were said to have prayed that Pindar should receive life's greatest blessings , whereupon , in fulfilment , the poet died peacefully . Pindar , moreover , had honoured connections with the Macedonian kings . Pindar was not the ...
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... Siwah , and although this request is as dubious as his other alleged last plans , Siwah was evidently felt to be a plausible choice for his Successors to put about among his troops . No Macedonian king nor Alexander himself had ever had ...
... Siwah , and although this request is as dubious as his other alleged last plans , Siwah was evidently felt to be a plausible choice for his Successors to put about among his troops . No Macedonian king nor Alexander himself had ever had ...
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