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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... Greek crusade against Persia's ' barbarians ' implied justice and religion and promised plenty of the plunder on which Greek warfare depended ; it coloured the way in which Greek allies saw their Macedonians ' task , and this colouring ...
... Greek crusade against Persia's ' barbarians ' implied justice and religion and promised plenty of the plunder on which Greek warfare depended ; it coloured the way in which Greek allies saw their Macedonians ' task , and this colouring ...
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... Greek literature , and the sense of an open frontier , where a man could speak Greek from Syria to the Oxus , can only be deduced from the horizons of Greek geographers and chance remarks in westerners ' histories . Archaeology has ...
... Greek literature , and the sense of an open frontier , where a man could speak Greek from Syria to the Oxus , can only be deduced from the horizons of Greek geographers and chance remarks in westerners ' histories . Archaeology has ...
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... Greek teachers for the Persian queen and her daughters , his Greek - speaking court , his use of Greek army commands in his integrated army and above all , the settling of more than 20,000 Greeks and veterans in rebuilt Alexandrias ...
... Greek teachers for the Persian queen and her daughters , his Greek - speaking court , his use of Greek army commands in his integrated army and above all , the settling of more than 20,000 Greeks and veterans in rebuilt Alexandrias ...
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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