Alexander the GreatLittle, Brown Book Group Limited, 1975 - 568 sivua 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. |
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Tulokset 1 - 3 kokonaismäärästä 87
Sivu 146
... Alexander's officers omitted from their histories . Ptolemy , it seems , never mentioned the Lyncestian again , content with his story of the arrest for treachery ; Aristobulus , who wrote in his eighties and elaborately defended Alexander ...
... Alexander's officers omitted from their histories . Ptolemy , it seems , never mentioned the Lyncestian again , content with his story of the arrest for treachery ; Aristobulus , who wrote in his eighties and elaborately defended Alexander ...
Sivu 200
... Alexander was to travel westwards with a small group of attendants and then turn south for three hundred miles through an eerie stretch of desert in order to put certain questions to the oracle of Ammon , a ram - headed god who was ...
... Alexander was to travel westwards with a small group of attendants and then turn south for three hundred miles through an eerie stretch of desert in order to put certain questions to the oracle of Ammon , a ram - headed god who was ...
Sivu 280
... Alexander prepared to pursue another , but first all excess baggage was piled on to wagons and massed in the centre of the camp ; Alexander then set fire to it , his own wagon first , the others only when his own example had been ...
... Alexander prepared to pursue another , but first all excess baggage was piled on to wagons and massed in the centre of the camp ; Alexander then set fire to it , his own wagon first , the others only when his own example had been ...
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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