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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... Egypt was as old as the world and proud of it . Greek philosophy , so her priesthood claimed , had been discovered by an Egyptian , son of the Nile , 48,863 years before Alexander's arrival . It was nearly two hundred years since the ...
... Egypt was as old as the world and proud of it . Greek philosophy , so her priesthood claimed , had been discovered by an Egyptian , son of the Nile , 48,863 years before Alexander's arrival . It was nearly two hundred years since the ...
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... Egyptian history . ' In Egypt ' , Plato had written , expressing the priests ' own view , ' it is not possible for a king to rule without the art of the priests ; if he has forced his way to power from another class , then he must be ...
... Egyptian history . ' In Egypt ' , Plato had written , expressing the priests ' own view , ' it is not possible for a king to rule without the art of the priests ; if he has forced his way to power from another class , then he must be ...
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... Egypt had mastered Siwah beyond any doubt , and the Pharaoh Amasis is known from hieroglyphics to have built the oracular temple which Alexander was going to visit . The temple's architecture is not distinctively Egyptian , and its ...
... Egypt had mastered Siwah beyond any doubt , and the Pharaoh Amasis is known from hieroglyphics to have built the oracular temple which Alexander was going to visit . The temple's architecture is not distinctively Egyptian , and its ...
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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