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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... five days they had reached the centre of Phrygia and encamped before the satrap's citadel at Celaenae . As soon as its foreign garrison realized that no Persian forces would rescue them in late winter , perhaps because Parmenion had ...
... five days they had reached the centre of Phrygia and encamped before the satrap's citadel at Celaenae . As soon as its foreign garrison realized that no Persian forces would rescue them in late winter , perhaps because Parmenion had ...
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... five of the seventy years before Alexander's arrival , Egypt had maintained her independence under various Pharaohs , some of them , probably southerners from Ethiopia , who had set up new dynasties in the Delta . The Persian attempts ...
... five of the seventy years before Alexander's arrival , Egypt had maintained her independence under various Pharaohs , some of them , probably southerners from Ethiopia , who had set up new dynasties in the Delta . The Persian attempts ...
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... five miles up a route barely practicable for mules , they reached the summit , where Alexander divided his troops . Four brigades of Foot Companions , too cumbersome for the ambush , were to descend into the far plain and prepare a ...
... five miles up a route barely practicable for mules , they reached the summit , where Alexander divided his troops . Four brigades of Foot Companions , too cumbersome for the ambush , were to descend into the far plain and prepare a ...
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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