The Nature of AlexanderPenguin, 2001 - 240 pages Combines contemporaneous accounts, critically studied legends, reproductions of pertinent artworks, and photographs to provide a full-scale, nonideological biography of the Macedonian conqueror and empire builder. |
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... known and conquered , then on and on among those he had never seen and only known from rumour , till it reached the Far East which , having been taught that the landmass ended with India , he had not believed to exist . Greek variants ...
... known and conquered , then on and on among those he had never seen and only known from rumour , till it reached the Far East which , having been taught that the landmass ended with India , he had not believed to exist . Greek variants ...
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... known Persians as long as he could remember , not as propaganda monsters but observable humans and friends ; with the boys of Artabazus ' large family he must often have played . Though Macedonian was a broad Doric patois , the court ...
... known Persians as long as he could remember , not as propaganda monsters but observable humans and friends ; with the boys of Artabazus ' large family he must often have played . Though Macedonian was a broad Doric patois , the court ...
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... known enough to secure the stranded ships , which were badly knocked about . At length , pilots found and repairs done , Alexander put out to an offshore island , where he sacrificed to the gods whom , he said , Ammon had instructed him ...
... known enough to secure the stranded ships , which were badly knocked about . At length , pilots found and repairs done , Alexander put out to an offshore island , where he sacrificed to the gods whom , he said , Ammon had instructed him ...
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Achilles Alexander Alexander's Alexandria Ammon ancient Antipater Aristobulus Aristotle army Arrian Arrian says Artabazus Asia asked Athenian Athens Attalus Babylon Bactria Bagoas battle Bessus Bucephalas Callisthenes campaign Cassander cavalry century chariot Christina Gascoigne Cleitus command court Craterus Curtius Cyrus danger Darius dead death Demosthenes died Diodorus divine doubt Ecbatana Egypt elephants enemy envoys eunuch Euphrates father fighting fleet force friends garrison gold Greece Greek head Hephaestion Hephaestion's honour horses Illyrians Indian infantry killed knew known land later legend Macedon Macedonian mercenaries murder Museum Nabarzanes Nearchus never night numbers Ochus offered officers Olympias once palace Parmenion passed Pausanias Pella Perdiccas perhaps Persepolis Persian Peucestas Philip Philotas Photo Plutarch Plutarch says Porus probably Ptolemy river Roman route Roxane royal satrap sent ships Sisygambis soldiers story surrender survived Susa Thebans Thebes thought told tomb took troops walls wound Xenophon Zeus