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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... command the Companion Cavalry , another son the Shield Bearers ; a nephew , or cousin , led half of the Mounted Scouts , and the leader of the Elimiot foot - brigade was now his son - in - law . Three other infantry officers and a ...
... command the Companion Cavalry , another son the Shield Bearers ; a nephew , or cousin , led half of the Mounted Scouts , and the leader of the Elimiot foot - brigade was now his son - in - law . Three other infantry officers and a ...
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... command . Denounced as guilty , he was promptly speared to death , an awkward fact which Alexander's officers omitted from their histories . Ptolemy , it seems , never mentioned the Lyncestian again , content with his story of the ...
... command . Denounced as guilty , he was promptly speared to death , an awkward fact which Alexander's officers omitted from their histories . Ptolemy , it seems , never mentioned the Lyncestian again , content with his story of the ...
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... command as an officer above suspicion and known to sympathize with Alexander's Persian customs ; the other half was left open until the missing 6,000 Macedonians arrived from Hamadan . Their loyalty , or their ignorance , had helped to ...
... command as an officer above suspicion and known to sympathize with Alexander's Persian customs ; the other half was left open until the missing 6,000 Macedonians arrived from Hamadan . Their loyalty , or their ignorance , had helped to ...
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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