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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... hero , and hardly a symbol of kingly leader- ship . There were public overtones here too , for Achilles was a hero of Thessaly , and Philip's heir was ruler of the Thessalians , a people essential for his army and control of southern ...
... hero , and hardly a symbol of kingly leader- ship . There were public overtones here too , for Achilles was a hero of Thessaly , and Philip's heir was ruler of the Thessalians , a people essential for his army and control of southern ...
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... hero in terms of the old heroic age , ' I honour you above all the swift - horsed Greeks , whether in war or any other work or at the feast when the heroes mix the gleaming wine . ' Horses and hunt- ing , feasts and fighting , these ...
... hero in terms of the old heroic age , ' I honour you above all the swift - horsed Greeks , whether in war or any other work or at the feast when the heroes mix the gleaming wine . ' Horses and hunt- ing , feasts and fighting , these ...
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... hero's tomb . Alexander's visit was Greek and spontaneous ; it turned on a link with the Trojan war and , above all , in its every tribute it had evoked the hero Achilles , his fellow seeker for fame and glory . Publicly Achilles had ...
... hero's tomb . Alexander's visit was Greek and spontaneous ; it turned on a link with the Trojan war and , above all , in its every tribute it had evoked the hero Achilles , his fellow seeker for fame and glory . Publicly Achilles 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