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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... Sogdian rebellion would exhaust his army's patience for eighteen unsatisfactory months , make new demands on his generalship and induce a mood of doubt among his entourage . The causes were simple ; four of Bessus's henchmen still ...
... Sogdian rebellion would exhaust his army's patience for eighteen unsatisfactory months , make new demands on his generalship and induce a mood of doubt among his entourage . The causes were simple ; four of Bessus's henchmen still ...
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... Sogdian villages in the midsummer sun , and the process was not yet completed . At dinner the local wine flowed very freely , more a sign of frayed nerves than of the new barbarism which historians later liked to detect in Alexander ...
... Sogdian villages in the midsummer sun , and the process was not yet completed . At dinner the local wine flowed very freely , more a sign of frayed nerves than of the new barbarism which historians later liked to detect in Alexander ...
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... Sogdians were subdued and fortified in a matter of weeks , and their sur- render at once cut Spitamenes off from his most promising source of support . As his 8,000 nomad horsemen were heavily outnumbered , he was reduced to raiding ...
... Sogdians were subdued and fortified in a matter of weeks , and their sur- render at once cut Spitamenes off from his most promising source of support . As his 8,000 nomad horsemen were heavily outnumbered , he was reduced to raiding ...
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List of Maps | 9 |
Preface | 133 |
PART | 157 |
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