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 85
Sivu 60
... Greece , Nestor for a wise man , Achilles for a brave one , and the mood of the Iliad was not an irrelevant revival for Philip's heir . Homer's poems were widely known in Macedonia . One of Antipater's sons could quote Homer fluently ...
... Greece , Nestor for a wise man , Achilles for a brave one , and the mood of the Iliad was not an irrelevant revival for Philip's heir . Homer's poems were widely known in Macedonia . One of Antipater's sons could quote Homer fluently ...
Sivu 91
... Greece , that depended on where Asia was thought to end . but the subjection of Greece was indeed the first and most awkward essential for any invader who crossed the Aegean . As heir to his father's Greek council , Alexander was ...
... Greece , that depended on where Asia was thought to end . but the subjection of Greece was indeed the first and most awkward essential for any invader who crossed the Aegean . As heir to his father's Greek council , Alexander was ...
Sivu 320
... Greece , probably as a borrowing from the East , and the Greeks described both their own and the Orientals ' practice by one and the same word , proskynesis . The only descriptions of it were written under the Roman empire , but they ...
... Greece , probably as a borrowing from the East , and the Greeks described both their own and the Orientals ' practice by one and the same word , proskynesis . The only descriptions of it were written under the Roman empire , but they ...
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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