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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... known by quotations from later authors , not one of whom preserved the original wording : these later authors are themselves only known from the manuscripts of even later copyists and in the four main sources these manuscripts are not ...
... known by quotations from later authors , not one of whom preserved the original wording : these later authors are themselves only known from the manuscripts of even later copyists and in the four main sources these manuscripts are not ...
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... known from recent archaeology , and they probably belong soon after Alexander's death . Alexander had been brought up in Archelaus's older palace on the more westerly of Pella's two hills , and its heavy marble pillars were as fashion ...
... known from recent archaeology , and they probably belong soon after Alexander's death . Alexander had been brought up in Archelaus's older palace on the more westerly of Pella's two hills , and its heavy marble pillars were as fashion ...
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... known at second or third hand , as rephrased by other classical writers often four hundred years later , some of whom might be writing on banqueting , geography or grammar . No word or phrase can be assumed to have been retained from ...
... known at second or third hand , as rephrased by other classical writers often four hundred years later , some of whom might be writing on banqueting , geography or grammar . No word or phrase can be assumed to have been retained from ...
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