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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... Siwah oasis have been brought to Alexander's notice as the place to find the truth ? Only if Ammon and Siwah are set in context can the motives for the pilgrimage be narrowed to a plausibility ; Ptolemy is known to have added miracles ...
... Siwah oasis have been brought to Alexander's notice as the place to find the truth ? Only if Ammon and Siwah are set in context can the motives for the pilgrimage be narrowed to a plausibility ; Ptolemy is known to have added miracles ...
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... Siwah were said to have prayed that Pindar should receive life's greatest blessings , whereupon , in fulfilment , the poet died peacefully . Pindar , moreover , had honoured connections with the Macedonian kings . Pindar was not the ...
... Siwah were said to have prayed that Pindar should receive life's greatest blessings , whereupon , in fulfilment , the poet died peacefully . Pindar , moreover , had honoured connections with the Macedonian kings . Pindar was not the ...
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... Siwah , and although this request is as dubious as his other alleged last plans , Siwah was evidently felt to be a plausible choice for his Successors to put about among his troops . No Macedonian king nor Alexander himself had ever had ...
... Siwah , and although this request is as dubious as his other alleged last plans , Siwah was evidently felt to be a plausible choice for his Successors to put about among his troops . No Macedonian king nor Alexander himself had ever had ...
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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