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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Sivu 280
... east towards the Silk Road , still meaning to dislodge the pretender Bessus from his distant base at Balkh . He had not gone far along the edge of the Arians ' satrapy when grave news compelled him to hurry south to its heart ...
... east towards the Silk Road , still meaning to dislodge the pretender Bessus from his distant base at Balkh . He had not gone far along the edge of the Arians ' satrapy when grave news compelled him to hurry south to its heart ...
Sivu 343
... east- wards . Beyond the Swat hills , on the eastern side of the river Indus , lived a rajah whose people throughout history had always supported Alexan- der's present enemies on the near bank . Agitators and hired troops had already ...
... east- wards . Beyond the Swat hills , on the eastern side of the river Indus , lived a rajah whose people throughout history had always supported Alexan- der's present enemies on the near bank . Agitators and hired troops had already ...
Sivu 494
... East is a far more delicate subject . Although to western geographers , Alexander's conquests seemed to have opened a wider and more accurate knowledge of a far East where men spoke Greek , their own views of the East were not ...
... East is a far more delicate subject . Although to western geographers , Alexander's conquests seemed to have opened a wider and more accurate knowledge of a far East where men spoke Greek , their own views of the East were not ...
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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