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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... royal harem : just as the king received his power by the grace of the good god Ahura Mazda , so the courtier received his rank from the hand of the king , being set apart by the honour of a purple cloak , a golden brooch or necklace or ...
... royal harem : just as the king received his power by the grace of the good god Ahura Mazda , so the courtier received his rank from the hand of the king , being set apart by the honour of a purple cloak , a golden brooch or necklace or ...
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... royal power at the foot of the mountains where Persian rule could never extend : there were two audience halls and a treasury , king's apartments and gates plated with bronze ; there were staircases , rooms for the guards and a royal ...
... royal power at the foot of the mountains where Persian rule could never extend : there were two audience halls and a treasury , king's apartments and gates plated with bronze ; there were staircases , rooms for the guards and a royal ...
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... royal carpet . Once admitted , he brought his hand to his lips in a respectful gesture which Greeks reserved for their gods , while suppliants or the very humblest classes also went down on their knees . During the court's official ...
... royal carpet . Once admitted , he brought his hand to his lips in a respectful gesture which Greeks reserved for their gods , while suppliants or the very humblest classes also went down on their knees . During the court's official ...
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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