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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... never been the slavish kingdom of an all - powerful master . Centralized rule is the victim of time and distance and in an empire where a royal letter could take three months to go from Phrygia to the Persian Gulf , power had had to be ...
... never been the slavish kingdom of an all - powerful master . Centralized rule is the victim of time and distance and in an empire where a royal letter could take three months to go from Phrygia to the Persian Gulf , power had had to be ...
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... never been firmly held anyway ; there the uprising collapsed within a year . Egypt , a part of Iran and the Punjab were indeed lost to the court at Babylon , but Egypt was detached because its new satrap Ptolemy pursued his ambition of ...
... never been firmly held anyway ; there the uprising collapsed within a year . Egypt , a part of Iran and the Punjab were indeed lost to the court at Babylon , but Egypt was detached because its new satrap Ptolemy pursued his ambition of ...
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... never have spread beyond Judaea . East of the Euphrates and among Iranians Hellenism has received less attention , partly because it has long been less known : few hellenized Persians are mentioned by name in surviving Greek literature ...
... never have spread beyond Judaea . East of the Euphrates and among Iranians Hellenism has received less attention , partly because it has long been less known : few hellenized Persians are mentioned by name in surviving Greek literature ...
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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