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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... historians attributed to him , the visions of the Macedonian camp aglow and of Alexander dressed in the Persian royal robe and vanishing into a Babylonian temple . Distressed feudal horsemen and a royal youth corps were hardly the ideal ...
... historians attributed to him , the visions of the Macedonian camp aglow and of Alexander dressed in the Persian royal robe and vanishing into a Babylonian temple . Distressed feudal horsemen and a royal youth corps were hardly the ideal ...
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... historians . He was to matter very much indeed . On the right , at the foot of the mountains , Alexander's meeting with Darius's cavalry was bold , and entirely successful . The enemy archers , light infantry and heavy cavalry gave way ...
... historians . He was to matter very much indeed . On the right , at the foot of the mountains , Alexander's meeting with Darius's cavalry was bold , and entirely successful . The enemy archers , light infantry and heavy cavalry gave way ...
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... Historians , at least , enjoyed his lame defence ; the army , who preferred their King to Cleitus , begged Alexander to forget his accident . Cleitus , they said , had deserved to be killed . When such a quarrel breaks , it can light up ...
... Historians , at least , enjoyed his lame defence ; the army , who preferred their King to Cleitus , begged Alexander to forget his accident . Cleitus , they said , had deserved to be killed . When such a quarrel breaks , it can light up ...
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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