Alexander the GreatPenguin Books, 1973 - 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--'It is tempting', he concludes, 'to see in Alexander the romantic's complex nature for the first time in Greek history.' Beautifully written perceptive and fluent, it is a superb example of historical scholarship and psychological insight. |
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... Alexander's friends was itself a widening through Greek culture , and here Aristotle stands as symbol of a process which bore Alexander the most valuable fruit . Again , the sons of highland nobles had come into contact with a civilized ...
... Alexander's friends was itself a widening through Greek culture , and here Aristotle stands as symbol of a process which bore Alexander the most valuable fruit . Again , the sons of highland nobles had come into contact with a civilized ...
Sivu 171
... Alexander realized quite clearly that Darius was slavish in his ways of thought . ' Trapped in a Cilician pass where his numbers , larger than Alexander's but not nearly so large as his enemy pretended , were now of no avail , the Great ...
... Alexander realized quite clearly that Darius was slavish in his ways of thought . ' Trapped in a Cilician pass where his numbers , larger than Alexander's but not nearly so large as his enemy pretended , were now of no avail , the Great ...
Sivu 499
... Alexander's original historians , Callisthenes , Ptolemy , Aristobulus , Nearchus and Onesicritus . I cannot stress ... Alexander's tutor Aristotle . He was employed as an already proven historian to write up Alexander's exploits in Asia ...
... Alexander's original historians , Callisthenes , Ptolemy , Aristobulus , Nearchus and Onesicritus . I cannot stress ... Alexander's tutor Aristotle . He was employed as an already proven historian to write up Alexander's exploits in Asia ...
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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