Alexander the GreatPenguin Books, 1973 - 568 pages Robin Lane Fox's accessible and erudite life of Alexander the Great searches through the mass of conflicting evidence and legend to focus on the living actuality of the man and his experience--'It is tempting', he concludes, 'to see in Alexander the romantic's complex nature for the first time in Greek history.' Beautifully written perceptive and fluent, it is a superb example of historical scholarship and psychological insight. |
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... Indus , the survivors kept retreating towards this one source of help . By early March they had been penned up into the north - east highlands overlooking the Indus itself and had fled to a steep spur north of Attock which even the hero ...
... Indus , the survivors kept retreating towards this one source of help . By early March they had been penned up into the north - east highlands overlooking the Indus itself and had fled to a steep spur north of Attock which even the hero ...
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... Indus : the Indus , he guessed , flowed south - west through the desert and curved round south of the Persian gulf into Upper Egypt where it changed its name to the Nile . His view of the world was compressed to fit the little he had ...
... Indus : the Indus , he guessed , flowed south - west through the desert and curved round south of the Persian gulf into Upper Egypt where it changed its name to the Nile . His view of the world was compressed to fit the little he had ...
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... Indus , from where they could strike west into the desert and make for home along the shore of the Persian gulf by a land route famed for its difficulty . A sizeable fleet would skirt it at the same time in order to test out the sea ...
... Indus , from where they could strike west into the desert and make for home along the shore of the Persian gulf by a land route famed for its difficulty . A sizeable fleet would skirt it at the same time in order to test out the sea ...
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List of Maps | 9 |
Preface | 133 |
PART | 157 |
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