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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... fleet in the harbours to block anchorage by the Persians , and set- tled down to wall off the rest of the city and besiege it into submission by slow but traditional means . Three days later , the Persians ' fleet ap- peared in force ...
... fleet in the harbours to block anchorage by the Persians , and set- tled down to wall off the rest of the city and besiege it into submission by slow but traditional means . Three days later , the Persians ' fleet ap- peared in force ...
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... fleet . ' This does so little justice to Alex- ander's foresight that it can only be pious publicity ; so far from not needing a fleet , let alone a Greek fleet , seven months later Alexander was forced to order his allied ships to ...
... fleet . ' This does so little justice to Alex- ander's foresight that it can only be pious publicity ; so far from not needing a fleet , let alone a Greek fleet , seven months later Alexander was forced to order his allied ships to ...
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... fleet which kept him down on his fateful route . As he founded another Alexandria on the river Maxates , site of one of the old trading towns on the Beluchistan desert , there were two available lines of advance to the west . Like ...
... fleet which kept him down on his fateful route . As he founded another Alexandria on the river Maxates , site of one of the old trading towns on the Beluchistan desert , there were two available lines of advance to the west . Like ...
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