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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Page 141
... land grants had been made without restrictions and created a provincial baronry free from the king , or a class of absentee landlords , free from their locality . Alexander and his Successors arranged that their favourites should be ...
... land grants had been made without restrictions and created a provincial baronry free from the king , or a class of absentee landlords , free from their locality . Alexander and his Successors arranged that their favourites should be ...
Page 158
... land grant had been issued , horse land , bow land and chariot land ; the very names are an insight into the Persian army , for the owners served as feudal archers , heavy cavalry and charioteers , complete with chariot and horse . All ...
... land grant had been issued , horse land , bow land and chariot land ; the very names are an insight into the Persian army , for the owners served as feudal archers , heavy cavalry and charioteers , complete with chariot and horse . All ...
Page 159
... land grant could only be owned by a member of the family , adoption was the one means of evading the king's law and endowing an outsider . When the father died , the adopted banker held one part of the farm , the true male heirs the ...
... land grant could only be owned by a member of the family , adoption was the one means of evading the king's law and endowing an outsider . When the father died , the adopted banker held one part of the farm , the true male heirs the ...
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