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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... temple staff had been forewarned , and the natives would have led Alexander through their houses at the foot of the citadel and set him on the steps to the temple , traces of which can still be seen . With his friends , he would have ...
... temple staff had been forewarned , and the natives would have led Alexander through their houses at the foot of the citadel and set him on the steps to the temple , traces of which can still be seen . With his friends , he would have ...
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... temple were grouped the city assemblies , run by a council of priests but drawn from a wider class whose links with the temple were often weak or ancestral . These native assemblies had been forced to pay taxes to the Persian king ...
... temple were grouped the city assemblies , run by a council of priests but drawn from a wider class whose links with the temple were often weak or ancestral . These native assemblies had been forced to pay taxes to the Persian king ...
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... temples ; they would call themselves King of the Lands , an ancient title of honour which referred specifically to Babylonia but had been dropped by the Persian kings since Xerxes ; they respected the temple citizenry , allowing them to ...
... temples ; they would call themselves King of the Lands , an ancient title of honour which referred specifically to Babylonia but had been dropped by the Persian kings since Xerxes ; they respected the temple citizenry , allowing them to ...
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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