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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... palace in Macedon and a site which has long eluded its modern searchers . The palace , in fact , has long been discovered and only the name has been misapplied . Aigai is not to be found on the steep green hillside of modern Edessa ...
... palace in Macedon and a site which has long eluded its modern searchers . The palace , in fact , has long been discovered and only the name has been misapplied . Aigai is not to be found on the steep green hillside of modern Edessa ...
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... palace may well have had mosaics too , for the earliest known mosaics on the Greek mainland are to be found in the northern Greek city of Olynthus which had come within the influence of Mace- donia's palace , and their designs were ...
... palace may well have had mosaics too , for the earliest known mosaics on the Greek mainland are to be found in the northern Greek city of Olynthus which had come within the influence of Mace- donia's palace , and their designs were ...
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... palace of Nisa , court of the Parthian kings on the lower Oxus , Greek plays were performed be- fore an audience of former nomads , while among the palace documents directions have been found for the making of a mask for a tragic actor ...
... palace of Nisa , court of the Parthian kings on the lower Oxus , Greek plays were performed be- fore an audience of former nomads , while among the palace documents directions have been found for the making of a mask for a tragic actor ...
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