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 76
... centre , were designed for a solid follow - up . Some 9,000 in number , they were packed shoulder to shoulder in six brigades , the centre files of which seem to have been known as the Citizen Companions , a title whose purpose is ...
... centre , were designed for a solid follow - up . Some 9,000 in number , they were packed shoulder to shoulder in six brigades , the centre files of which seem to have been known as the Citizen Companions , a title whose purpose is ...
Sivu 173
... centre where , according to royal custom , Darius had stationed his chariot . Their virtuosity was well - timed ; back in the Macedonian centre , the phalanx was faltering on the brink of the river and beginning to come adrift as it ...
... centre where , according to royal custom , Darius had stationed his chariot . Their virtuosity was well - timed ; back in the Macedonian centre , the phalanx was faltering on the brink of the river and beginning to come adrift as it ...
Sivu 240
... centre alone the situation was unmistakable . Alexander's head- long charge towards Darius had carried the righthand units of Foot- Companions with him , but the left three files , struggling to keep up , had let their line go out of ...
... centre alone the situation was unmistakable . Alexander's head- long charge towards Darius had carried the righthand units of Foot- Companions with him , but the left three files , struggling to keep up , had let their line go out of ...
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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