Alexander the GreatAllen Lane, 1973 - 568 pages Series follows well-known personalities back to the ancient times in which they lived. |
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... fights by retreating ? ' This story may be fanciful , but Alexander would indeed have been relieved that as long ... fighting became open and mobile , but since Issus , Darius had revised their weapons of attack , giving them larger ...
... fights by retreating ? ' This story may be fanciful , but Alexander would indeed have been relieved that as long ... fighting became open and mobile , but since Issus , Darius had revised their weapons of attack , giving them larger ...
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... fighting the Greeks ' crusade ; he had maintained Persians as Honoured Friends around him ; he now respected the dead Darius , just as Darius's ancestors had once respected the kings they replaced , whether live or dead . To administer ...
... fighting the Greeks ' crusade ; he had maintained Persians as Honoured Friends around him ; he now respected the dead Darius , just as Darius's ancestors had once respected the kings they replaced , whether live or dead . To administer ...
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... fighting , an allegory which Virgil took up and applied through the picture's details to Augustus as a prophecy that under his empire war would be no more . This Roman fancy had left its original very far behind : if there was one ...
... fighting , an allegory which Virgil took up and applied through the picture's details to Augustus as a prophecy that under his empire war would be no more . This Roman fancy had left its original very far behind : if there was one ...
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Achilles Aegean Alex Alex.'s Alexander Alexander's death Alexandria allies already Ammon Antipater Aristob Aristotle army Asia Athenian Athens Babylon Bactria battle Berve s.v. Bessus Callisthenes camp cavalry chariot Cleit coins command court Craterus Darius Darius's desert Dionysus east Egypt Egyptian elephants empire enemy exiles father favour fleet Foot Companions friends Gaugamela gods Greece Greek Greek cities Hamadan 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 mountains 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 Roman route royal sarissas satrap sent Shield Bearers ships Siwah Sogdian story Susa temple tribes troops Tyre victory wrote Zeus