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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... story that Olympias had visited the Persian court , where the king made love to her and then sent her back to Macedonia because her breath smelt appallingly bad . There was more to the argument than nationalist ro- mance . Olympias , it ...
... story that Olympias had visited the Persian court , where the king made love to her and then sent her back to Macedonia because her breath smelt appallingly bad . There was more to the argument than nationalist ro- mance . Olympias , it ...
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... story of this meeting , but it was probably his fiction that Alexander went on to comment : ' If I had not been Alexander , I would like to have been Diogenes . ' And yet both of them shared , for different ends , an extraordinary power ...
... story of this meeting , but it was probably his fiction that Alexander went on to comment : ' If I had not been Alexander , I would like to have been Diogenes . ' And yet both of them shared , for different ends , an extraordinary power ...
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... story survives that Alexander forged one of his let- ters and set a more arrogant version before his Companions to be sure that they would refuse it . Darius's letters to Alexander was disputed and mud- dled in the histories , and there ...
... story survives that Alexander forged one of his let- ters and set a more arrogant version before his Companions to be sure that they would refuse it . Darius's letters to Alexander was disputed and mud- dled in the histories , and there ...
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List of Maps | 9 |
Preface | 133 |
PART | 157 |
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