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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... troops for open ground and weather . The Companions ' horses , like all ancient cavalry , had no nailed horseshoes , and the leather boots which were slipped over their feet in icy conditions soon wore as thin as the hoof itself . But ...
... troops for open ground and weather . The Companions ' horses , like all ancient cavalry , had no nailed horseshoes , and the leather boots which were slipped over their feet in icy conditions soon wore as thin as the hoof itself . But ...
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... troops . To each unit he is said to have made a different point , advising them that the gods were on their side . ' He also recalled their past successes as a team and mentioned any individual feats of daring which were especially ...
... troops . To each unit he is said to have made a different point , advising them that the gods were on their side . ' He also recalled their past successes as a team and mentioned any individual feats of daring which were especially ...
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... troops in A. 3.25.2 need only have guarded the fringe of Aria , while Alex . set off by the shorter road to Merv . Baggage : QC 6.6.15 dates this better ( the roads to Balkh are all bad ! ) than P. 57.1 , Polyaen . 4.3.10 . Herat ...
... troops in A. 3.25.2 need only have guarded the fringe of Aria , while Alex . set off by the shorter road to Merv . Baggage : QC 6.6.15 dates this better ( the roads to Balkh are all bad ! ) than P. 57.1 , Polyaen . 4.3.10 . Herat ...
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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