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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... find the truth ? Only if Ammon and Siwah are set in context can the motives for the pilgrimage be narrowed to a plausibility ; Ptolemy is known to have added miracles to the visit and his account of its motive is unlikely to be ...
... find the truth ? Only if Ammon and Siwah are set in context can the motives for the pilgrimage be narrowed to a plausibility ; Ptolemy is known to have added miracles to the visit and his account of its motive is unlikely to be ...
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... find ; he was entering the second , most delicate , stage of his return . The march from Kirman to the province of Persia is not a hard one , and in early spring 324 , Alexander found himself already at Pasargadae , barely fifty miles ...
... find ; he was entering the second , most delicate , stage of his return . The march from Kirman to the province of Persia is not a hard one , and in early spring 324 , Alexander found himself already at Pasargadae , barely fifty miles ...
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... find that their congregations favoured Alexander's image on their seal - rings : for the classical world he had become the prototype of glory and superhuman excellence , and men were reluctant to forget him . To project this back into ...
... find that their congregations favoured Alexander's image on their seal - rings : for the classical world he had become the prototype of glory and superhuman excellence , and men were reluctant to forget him . To project this back into ...
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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