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 78
... troops for open ground and weather . The Companions ' horses , like all ancient cavalry , had no nailed horseshoes , and the leather boots which were slipped over their feet in icy conditions soon wore as thin as the hoof itself . But ...
... troops for open ground and weather . The Companions ' horses , like all ancient cavalry , had no nailed horseshoes , and the leather boots which were slipped over their feet in icy conditions soon wore as thin as the hoof itself . But ...
Sivu 168
... troops . To each unit he is said to have made a different point , advising them that the gods were on their side . ' He also recalled their past successes as a team and mentioned any individual feats of daring which were especially ...
... troops . To each unit he is said to have made a different point , advising them that the gods were on their side . ' He also recalled their past successes as a team and mentioned any individual feats of daring which were especially ...
Sivu 453
... troops to Greece . Chares and Autophradates , both heroes of the war begun by Memnon in the Aegean , were waiting to take revenge , and Chares had used troops disbanded by satraps to good effect before . If he shipped them to the tip of ...
... troops to Greece . Chares and Autophradates , both heroes of the war begun by Memnon in the Aegean , were waiting to take revenge , and Chares had used troops disbanded by satraps to good effect before . If he shipped them to the tip 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