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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... Macedonian superiority was never far from the surface . So Alexander was growing up a Macedonian in a rough Macedonian world , the more so as his father had brought the life of Macedonia's highlands directly into his daily circle : he ...
... Macedonian superiority was never far from the surface . So Alexander was growing up a Macedonian in a rough Macedonian world , the more so as his father had brought the life of Macedonia's highlands directly into his daily circle : he ...
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... Macedonia kings and barons continued them each in their distinctive way . Once , according to an old Macedonian custom , a Macedonian could not have worn a proper belt until he had killed a man in battle , and in Alexander's day single ...
... Macedonia kings and barons continued them each in their distinctive way . Once , according to an old Macedonian custom , a Macedonian could not have worn a proper belt until he had killed a man in battle , and in Alexander's day single ...
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... Macedonian garrison invested Thebes's fortress and a council of three hundred Thebans , many of whom had already been exiled by their fellow citizens , were set in authority over men who loathed them for their debt to Macedonia . Worst ...
... Macedonian garrison invested Thebes's fortress and a council of three hundred Thebans , many of whom had already been exiled by their fellow citizens , were set in authority over men who loathed them for their debt to Macedonia . Worst ...
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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