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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... Persepolis ; the rest were made to run uphill for another six miles of broken ground , until they had surprised and slaughtered the three outer groups of Persian pickets . In the early hours of the morning , they fell into the rear of ...
... Persepolis ; the rest were made to run uphill for another six miles of broken ground , until they had surprised and slaughtered the three outer groups of Persian pickets . In the early hours of the morning , they fell into the rear of ...
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... Persepolis as the most hateful city in Asia and for the past four years they had risked their lives in the hope of plunder ; they could not , therefore , be left milling round the terrace , and when their king reappeared he gave them ...
... Persepolis as the most hateful city in Asia and for the past four years they had risked their lives in the hope of plunder ; they could not , therefore , be left milling round the terrace , and when their king reappeared he gave them ...
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... Persepolis was not to continue as a storehouse for the empire . While this baggage- train was awaited the main army could relax . Not so Alexander , who set out into the hills round Persepolis with a picked force of infantry and a ...
... Persepolis was not to continue as a storehouse for the empire . While this baggage- train was awaited the main army could relax . Not so Alexander , who set out into the hills round Persepolis with a picked force of infantry and a ...
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List of Maps | 9 |
Preface | 133 |
PART | 157 |
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Achilles Aegean Alex Alex.'s Alexander Alexander's death Alexandria allies already Ammon ander Antipater Aristob Aristotle army Asia Athenian Athens Babylon battle Berve s.v. Bessus Callisthenes camp cavalry centre chariot Cleit command Companion Cavalry court Craterus Darius Darius's desert Dionysus east Egypt Egyptian elephants empire enemy exiles father favour fleet Foot Companions friends gods Greece Greek Greek cities Hamadan Harpalus 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 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 route royal sarissas satrap sent Shield Bearers ships Siwah Sogdian story Susa temple tribes troops Tyre victory wrote Zeus