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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... sarissas too . If so , they could keep them vertical in deep formations and break the flight of enemy missiles ... sarissas vertically , countermarching or drilling round , then lowering them to the horizontal , they could face about ...
... sarissas too . If so , they could keep them vertical in deep formations and break the flight of enemy missiles ... sarissas vertically , countermarching or drilling round , then lowering them to the horizontal , they could face about ...
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... sarissas , up and down , left and right , seemed to frightened observers like the quills of a metal porcupine . The button - shaped shield of the Foot Companions became the national emblem of Macedonians , and yet their unit may not ...
... sarissas , up and down , left and right , seemed to frightened observers like the quills of a metal porcupine . The button - shaped shield of the Foot Companions became the national emblem of Macedonians , and yet their unit may not ...
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... Sarissas , of course , were almost useless in close combat , and the short daggers which Foot Companions wore on their hips were very much a last resort . Both Companions and Foot Companions were troops for open ground and weather . The ...
... Sarissas , of course , were almost useless in close combat , and the short daggers which Foot Companions wore on their hips were very much a last resort . Both Companions and Foot Companions were troops for open ground and weather . The ...
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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