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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... Tyre on the mainland ; he was not to enter their new island city . This retort made Alexander angry and within days he had begun to demolish Old Tyre in order to use its stone and timber for an assault on New Tyre's offshore position ...
... Tyre on the mainland ; he was not to enter their new island city . This retort made Alexander angry and within days he had begun to demolish Old Tyre in order to use its stone and timber for an assault on New Tyre's offshore position ...
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... Tyre , Alexander's generalship had been good rather than great ; with a characteristic leap forward to meet a challenge , he was now to show for the first time that genius which singles him out in military history . Before settling down ...
... Tyre , Alexander's generalship had been good rather than great ; with a characteristic leap forward to meet a challenge , he was now to show for the first time that genius which singles him out in military history . Before settling down ...
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... Tyre which he himself had been re- sponsible for sinking . Never can the god have received such a blood- stained sacrice : ' Tyre ' , said a Macedonian historian , possibly Callisthenes , ' had fallen in the month of July when Aniketos ...
... Tyre which he himself had been re- sponsible for sinking . Never can the god have received such a blood- stained sacrice : ' Tyre ' , said a Macedonian historian , possibly Callisthenes , ' had fallen in the month of July when Aniketos ...
Table des matières
List of Maps | 9 |
Preface | 133 |
PART | 157 |
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