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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... story that Olympias had visited the Persian court , where the king made love to her and then sent her back to Macedonia because her breath smelt appallingly bad . There was more to the argument than nationalist romance . Olympias , it ...
... story that Olympias had visited the Persian court , where the king made love to her and then sent her back to Macedonia because her breath smelt appallingly bad . There was more to the argument than nationalist romance . Olympias , it ...
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... story of the arrest for treachery ; Aristobulus , who wrote in his eighties and elaborately defended Alexander , seems to have taken an even more extreme stand . Most probably , he implied that the Lyncestian had been killed by an enemy ...
... story of the arrest for treachery ; Aristobulus , who wrote in his eighties and elaborately defended Alexander , seems to have taken an even more extreme stand . Most probably , he implied that the Lyncestian had been killed by an enemy ...
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... story survives that Alexander forged one of his let- ters and set a more arrogant version before his Companions to be sure that they would refuse it . Darius's letters to Alexander are disputed and mud- dled in the histories , and there ...
... story survives that Alexander forged one of his let- ters and set a more arrogant version before his Companions to be sure that they would refuse it . Darius's letters to Alexander are disputed and mud- dled in the histories , and there ...
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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