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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... native Saites or the invading Persians , the new line had been fitted into the past by this myth of divine fatherhood . Psamtik I , more than three hundred years before Alexander , had begun a new line , but instead of stressing his ...
... native Saites or the invading Persians , the new line had been fitted into the past by this myth of divine fatherhood . Psamtik I , more than three hundred years before Alexander , had begun a new line , but instead of stressing his ...
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... native alphabet ; in the west local dialects survived , but they seldom obtrude in the surviving evidence , apart from the names of native gods and the fact that a Phoenician under Greek rule wrote his people's prehistory in Aramaic ...
... native alphabet ; in the west local dialects survived , but they seldom obtrude in the surviving evidence , apart from the names of native gods and the fact that a Phoenician under Greek rule wrote his people's prehistory in Aramaic ...
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... native citizenry and so spread their language through their wives , families and fellow - inhabitants . Each Alexandria was a full - blooded city where men had to vote on Greek decrees and agree to Greek law ; citizenship was a ...
... native citizenry and so spread their language through their wives , families and fellow - inhabitants . Each Alexandria was a full - blooded city where men had to vote on Greek decrees and agree to Greek law ; citizenship was a ...
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