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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... Olympias could not dismiss it as another triviality among the many of the past . As mother of Alexander , Philip's only competent son , and as princess of neighbouring Epirus , she had deserved her recognition as queen of Macedonia for ...
... Olympias could not dismiss it as another triviality among the many of the past . As mother of Alexander , Philip's only competent son , and as princess of neighbouring Epirus , she had deserved her recognition as queen of Macedonia for ...
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... Olympias was a divorced woman who might well disown the husband who betrayed her . Her past behaviour and her character , itself a problem , make this only too plausible . Olympias was an orphan under her uncle's guardianship when ...
... Olympias was a divorced woman who might well disown the husband who betrayed her . Her past behaviour and her character , itself a problem , make this only too plausible . Olympias was an orphan under her uncle's guardianship when ...
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... Olympias kept her own pet snake , and snake - handling is a known practice in the wilder sorts of Greek religion ; when Olympias's childhood home at Dodona was excavated , archaeologists were much impressed by repeated signs of its ...
... Olympias kept her own pet snake , and snake - handling is a known practice in the wilder sorts of Greek religion ; when Olympias's childhood home at Dodona was excavated , archaeologists were much impressed by repeated signs of 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