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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... believed in antiquity , and as Greeks believed such fortunate errors at a solemn moment to be favourable omens , Alexander would have taken it to be another sign from heaven . Frequent visits from Greek envoys had ensured that many of ...
... believed in antiquity , and as Greeks believed such fortunate errors at a solemn moment to be favourable omens , Alexander would have taken it to be another sign from heaven . Frequent visits from Greek envoys had ensured that many of ...
Sivu 217
... believed of Alexander , not what Alexander believed of himself . But he was soon to move far beyond Philip's achievements , and the farther he moved , the more the special protection of Zeus Ammon must have appealed to him . Legend ...
... believed of Alexander , not what Alexander believed of himself . But he was soon to move far beyond Philip's achievements , and the farther he moved , the more the special protection of Zeus Ammon must have appealed to him . Legend ...
Sivu 341
... believed to have been born from the thigh of Zeus . But the Indians may have led them to the name , for in early Hindu cosmology the world was believed to float like the four petals of a lotus around its central mountain Meru , which ...
... believed to have been born from the thigh of Zeus . But the Indians may have led them to the name , for in early Hindu cosmology the world was believed to float like the four petals of a lotus around its central mountain Meru , which ...
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