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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... tribes , not in towns , and their lakeside villages were often built on wooden stilts with only a dry - walled fort on a nearby waterless hilltop for refuge in case of invasion . Among Alexander's officers and among later Macedonians ...
... tribes , not in towns , and their lakeside villages were often built on wooden stilts with only a dry - walled fort on a nearby waterless hilltop for refuge in case of invasion . Among Alexander's officers and among later Macedonians ...
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... tribe of Triballians in Thrace raided his lines , removed all the spoils and wounded him badly in the thigh . The ... tribes and landscape ; he would now overcome them by an expert use of varied weaponry , the main principle of his ...
... tribe of Triballians in Thrace raided his lines , removed all the spoils and wounded him badly in the thigh . The ... tribes and landscape ; he would now overcome them by an expert use of varied weaponry , the main principle of his ...
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... tribes and nomads where an army had to cut a path if it was to progress at all and where snow and mud kept its season unusually short . On the outskirts of the Persian palaces a traveller would meet with nomads whom the king , left ...
... tribes and nomads where an army had to cut a path if it was to progress at all and where snow and mud kept its season unusually short . On the outskirts of the Persian palaces a traveller would meet with nomads whom the king , left ...
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List of Maps | 9 |
Preface | 133 |
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