Alexander the GreatAllen Lane, 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 72
Sivu 173
... historians . He was to matter very much indeed . On the right , at the foot of the mountains , Alexander's meeting with Darius's cavalry was bold , and entirely successful . The enemy archers , light infantry and heavy cavalry gave way ...
... historians . He was to matter very much indeed . On the right , at the foot of the mountains , Alexander's meeting with Darius's cavalry was bold , and entirely successful . The enemy archers , light infantry and heavy cavalry gave way ...
Sivu 236
... historian , least of all Callisthenes , was in a position to survey the scene with the naked eye . Such a broad ... historians of Gaugamela would do better first to raise the dust and then complain that they , like Alexander , are ...
... historian , least of all Callisthenes , was in a position to survey the scene with the naked eye . Such a broad ... historians of Gaugamela would do better first to raise the dust and then complain that they , like Alexander , are ...
Sivu 499
... historians , Callisthenes , Ptolemy , Aristobulus , Nearchus and Onesicritus . I cannot stress too strongly that all ... historian to write up Alexander's exploits in Asia , if not before . Ptolemy the Mace- donian was Alexander's ...
... historians , Callisthenes , Ptolemy , Aristobulus , Nearchus and Onesicritus . I cannot stress too strongly that all ... historian to write up Alexander's exploits in Asia , if not before . Ptolemy the Mace- donian was Alexander's ...
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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