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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Sivu 245
... Babylon's economy and a source of wood , beer , food and bedding ; the Persians had made up a popular song about its uses , all 360 of them , so they said , one for each day of the Babylonian year . The country he travelled had long ...
... Babylon's economy and a source of wood , beer , food and bedding ; the Persians had made up a popular song about its uses , all 360 of them , so they said , one for each day of the Babylonian year . The country he travelled had long ...
Sivu 247
... Babylon , perhaps as prearranged . Alexander was by no means as certain of the sequel as his historians implied . When Babylon's massive brick walls were in sight , he drew up his army as if for battle and ordered a prudent advance ...
... Babylon , perhaps as prearranged . Alexander was by no means as certain of the sequel as his historians implied . When Babylon's massive brick walls were in sight , he drew up his army as if for battle and ordered a prudent advance ...
Sivu 248
... Babylon had observed , not explained ; a Babylonian had already visited Plato's Academy in Athens , and Callis- thenes is said to have copied and sent back to his relation , Aristotle , the records of Babylon's many astronomers , which ...
... Babylon had observed , not explained ; a Babylonian had already visited Plato's Academy in Athens , and Callis- thenes is said to have copied and sent back to his relation , Aristotle , the records of Babylon's many astronomers , which ...
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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