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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Page 128
... ander took Mithrines on to his staff as an honoured friend and allowed Sardis and the rest of Lydia ' to use the ancient laws of the Lydians and to be free ' . As nothing is known of Persian government inside Sardis , except that the ...
... ander took Mithrines on to his staff as an honoured friend and allowed Sardis and the rest of Lydia ' to use the ancient laws of the Lydians and to be free ' . As nothing is known of Persian government inside Sardis , except that the ...
Page 312
... ander's circle , and it would be welcome light relief in a case where Alex- ander could secretly blame himself for the disaster . Others , less plausibly , said that Alexander was decrying his father Philip or approving flatterers who ...
... ander's circle , and it would be welcome light relief in a case where Alex- ander could secretly blame himself for the disaster . Others , less plausibly , said that Alexander was decrying his father Philip or approving flatterers who ...
Page 317
... ander's own . But the mood of the moment was best caught by the exper- ienced and contemporary Greek painter Aetion : in his painting of Alex- ander's wedding , sadly lost , he depicted . a very beautiful bedroom , with a wedding bed on ...
... ander's own . But the mood of the moment was best caught by the exper- ienced and contemporary Greek painter Aetion : in his painting of Alex- ander's wedding , sadly lost , he depicted . a very beautiful bedroom , with a wedding bed on ...
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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