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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... Ptolemy that he had been a proven traitor ; for Ptolemy , perhaps , there were grounds for the false suggestion . Sisines and the Lyncestian were killed and arrested in one and the same month , each for different reasons ; in Seistan ...
... Ptolemy that he had been a proven traitor ; for Ptolemy , perhaps , there were grounds for the false suggestion . Sisines and the Lyncestian were killed and arrested in one and the same month , each for different reasons ; in Seistan ...
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... Ptolemy , friend of Alexander , historian and future Pharaoh of Egypt ; this is a chance reference , but it is confirmed by an inscription which honours a son of Ptolemy and Thais as the winner of a two - horse chariot race in Greece ...
... Ptolemy , friend of Alexander , historian and future Pharaoh of Egypt ; this is a chance reference , but it is confirmed by an inscription which honours a son of Ptolemy and Thais as the winner of a two - horse chariot race in Greece ...
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... Ptolemy's independence , Alexander had fought through ten years of his life for broader ends . Unlike Ptolemy , he had believed it possible for one power to rule from the Mediterranean to the far edge of India , by basing an empire on ...
... Ptolemy's independence , Alexander had fought through ten years of his life for broader ends . Unlike Ptolemy , he had believed it possible for one power to rule from the Mediterranean to the far edge of India , by basing an empire on ...
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List of Maps | 9 |
Preface | 133 |
PART | 157 |
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