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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... legends gathered . In his lifetime they had begun , springing up in his wake from the Hellespont to the Himalayas ... legend fathered him on Darius II , who had received a daughter of Philip of Macedon after a ( wholly fictitious ) ...
... legends gathered . In his lifetime they had begun , springing up in his wake from the Hellespont to the Himalayas ... legend fathered him on Darius II , who had received a daughter of Philip of Macedon after a ( wholly fictitious ) ...
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... legend , 14 Agamemnon , signal beacon in , 65 Agen , satire on Harpalus , q.v. Agriani , allies and auxiliaries of Alexander , 73 , 77 , 95 , 122 ' Ajax ' , King Porus ' war elephant , 170 A kesines , river , map 176–7 , 184 Alcibiades ...
... legend , 14 Agamemnon , signal beacon in , 65 Agen , satire on Harpalus , q.v. Agriani , allies and auxiliaries of Alexander , 73 , 77 , 95 , 122 ' Ajax ' , King Porus ' war elephant , 170 A kesines , river , map 176–7 , 184 Alcibiades ...
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... legend , 14 Aria ( Ariana ) , map 176-7 . See also Satibar- zanes Ariadne , mortal bride of Dionysus , i , 31 Arimazd ( Ahura - Mazda ) , Persian supreme god , 231 Aristobulus , architect - engineer and chronicler of Alexander , source ...
... legend , 14 Aria ( Ariana ) , map 176-7 . See also Satibar- zanes Ariadne , mortal bride of Dionysus , i , 31 Arimazd ( Ahura - Mazda ) , Persian supreme god , 231 Aristobulus , architect - engineer and chronicler of Alexander , source ...
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