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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... east towards the Silk Road , still meaning to dislodge the pretender Bessus from his distant base at Balkh . He had not gone far along the edge of the Arians ' satrapy when grave news compelled him to hurry south to its heart ...
... east towards the Silk Road , still meaning to dislodge the pretender Bessus from his distant base at Balkh . He had not gone far along the edge of the Arians ' satrapy when grave news compelled him to hurry south to its heart ...
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... east- wards . Beyond the Swat hills , on the eastern side of the river Indus , lived a rajah whose people throughout history had always supported Alexan- der's present enemies on the near bank . Agitators and hired troops had already ...
... east- wards . Beyond the Swat hills , on the eastern side of the river Indus , lived a rajah whose people throughout history had always supported Alexan- der's present enemies on the near bank . Agitators and hired troops had already ...
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... East is a far more delicate subject . Although to western geographers , Alexander's conquests seemed to have opened a wider and more accurate knowledge of a far East where men spoke Greek , their own views of the East were not ...
... East is a far more delicate subject . Although to western geographers , Alexander's conquests seemed to have opened a wider and more accurate knowledge of a far East where men spoke Greek , their own views of the East were not ...
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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