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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... camping casually at a distance and even hobbling their horses in front of camp had already been emphasized by Xenophon as a fine chance for attackers . Having stolen a march by stealth at dawn , Alexander fanned out his battle line and ...
... camping casually at a distance and even hobbling their horses in front of camp had already been emphasized by Xenophon as a fine chance for attackers . Having stolen a march by stealth at dawn , Alexander fanned out his battle line and ...
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... camp . The men were annoyed with their king's loss of temper but they were not to be shifted from their ground . The hours passed , until they could even feel brave enough to despise him and boo if he kept up his anger any longer . Such ...
... camp . The men were annoyed with their king's loss of temper but they were not to be shifted from their ground . The hours passed , until they could even feel brave enough to despise him and boo if he kept up his anger any longer . Such ...
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... camp - traders , women and such quartermasters as were not paid in kind , and these debts remained to be paid to as many camp followers as survived to collect them . At first , the men suspected this astonishing offer as a means of ...
... camp - traders , women and such quartermasters as were not paid in kind , and these debts remained to be paid to as many camp followers as survived to collect them . At first , the men suspected this astonishing offer as a means of ...
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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