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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... horse from his Thessalian breeder for a price said to be as high as thirteen talents , more than three times higher than any paid for other known horses in antiquity , and having bought it , he gave it as a present to Philip ...
... horse from his Thessalian breeder for a price said to be as high as thirteen talents , more than three times higher than any paid for other known horses in antiquity , and having bought it , he gave it as a present to Philip ...
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... horses and revenues for a wider group of riders , and the numbers of Companion cavalrymen had risen from some six hundred or more at Philip's accession to some four thousand by the end of his reign . As for the horses , they were ...
... horses and revenues for a wider group of riders , and the numbers of Companion cavalrymen had risen from some six hundred or more at Philip's accession to some four thousand by the end of his reign . As for the horses , they were ...
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... horse was reported dead : others , loyal to his invincibility , maintained that he had only collapsed of extreme old age . It ... horses : they stressed ATG — M * 361 their different links with Alexander but they also revived Bucephalas's.
... horse was reported dead : others , loyal to his invincibility , maintained that he had only collapsed of extreme old age . It ... horses : they stressed ATG — M * 361 their different links with Alexander but they also revived Bucephalas's.
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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