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 91
Sivu 258
... royal power at the foot of the mountains where Persian rule could never extend : there were two audience halls and a treasury , king's apartments and gates plated with bronze ; there were staircases , rooms for the guards and a royal ...
... royal power at the foot of the mountains where Persian rule could never extend : there were two audience halls and a treasury , king's apartments and gates plated with bronze ; there were staircases , rooms for the guards and a royal ...
Sivu 335
... royal Bodyguards ; the Royal Squadron of Companions , once led by Cleitus , had been renamed and taken over by Alexander him- self . Each had their friends and families , though their fickle currents of influence can no longer be ...
... royal Bodyguards ; the Royal Squadron of Companions , once led by Cleitus , had been renamed and taken over by Alexander him- self . Each had their friends and families , though their fickle currents of influence can no longer be ...
Sivu 428
... royal scrolls of the Persian empire were still stored in the same files ; the Royal Road still ran through the same post houses with the same immemorial threat of levies and requisitions . There were Honoured Friends at court , Royal ...
... royal scrolls of the Persian empire were still stored in the same files ; the Royal Road still ran through the same post houses with the same immemorial threat of levies and requisitions . There were Honoured Friends at court , Royal ...
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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