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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... ander also bribed Ammon's priests in order to be sure of receiving the answers he wanted , but any consultant of a Greek oracle would first pay the god honour , and it is unthinkable that Alexander gave advance warning of his questions ...
... ander also bribed Ammon's priests in order to be sure of receiving the answers he wanted , but any consultant of a Greek oracle would first pay the god honour , and it is unthinkable that Alexander gave advance warning of his questions ...
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... ander's . Babylon's surrender is better explained from the gestures which Alex- ander made in return . Inside the city he gave the priesthood an audience and ordered the restoration of the temples which Xerxes had damaged , especially ...
... ander's . Babylon's surrender is better explained from the gestures which Alex- ander made in return . Inside the city he gave the priesthood an audience and ordered the restoration of the temples which Xerxes had damaged , especially ...
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... ander : at Susa , he sacrificed to the Greek gods and held Greek gymnastic games , and on entering the inner palace , he was shown to the tall gold throne of the Persian kings where he took his seat beneath its golden canopy ; Demaratus ...
... ander : at Susa , he sacrificed to the Greek gods and held Greek gymnastic games , and on entering the inner palace , he was shown to the tall gold throne of the Persian kings where he took his seat beneath its golden canopy ; Demaratus ...
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