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 44
... story that Olympias had visited the Persian court , where the king made love to her and then sent her back to Macedonia because her breath smelt appallingly bad . There was more to the argument than nationalist ro- mance . Olympias , it ...
... story that Olympias had visited the Persian court , where the king made love to her and then sent her back to Macedonia because her breath smelt appallingly bad . There was more to the argument than nationalist ro- mance . Olympias , it ...
Sivu 146
... story of the arrest for treachery ; Aristobulus , who wrote in his eighties and elaborately defended Alexander , seems to have taken an even more extreme stand . Most probably , he implied that the Lyncestian had been killed by an enemy ...
... story of the arrest for treachery ; Aristobulus , who wrote in his eighties and elaborately defended Alexander , seems to have taken an even more extreme stand . Most probably , he implied that the Lyncestian had been killed by an enemy ...
Sivu 263
... story and replace a moment of intoxication with a sober rebuttal of the dead and discredited Parmenion . By his confident answer . Alexander would seem so sure of his actions , and nobody would guess that the historian's mistress had ...
... story and replace a moment of intoxication with a sober rebuttal of the dead and discredited Parmenion . By his confident answer . Alexander would seem so sure of his actions , and nobody would guess that the historian's mistress had ...
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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