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 17
... lived with at least seven wives of varying rank , but he had never been father of the bride before ; he was giving away his daughter to the young client king of Epirus who lived beyond the western border of his kingdom . There was no ...
... lived with at least seven wives of varying rank , but he had never been father of the bride before ; he was giving away his daughter to the young client king of Epirus who lived beyond the western border of his kingdom . There was no ...
Sivu 141
... lived in some comfort in their own houses . But through this continuity , a new current had begun to flow . In the Caicus valley , for example , the colonists from distant Hyrcania , who had fought with their satrap at the Granicus , lived ...
... lived in some comfort in their own houses . But through this continuity , a new current had begun to flow . In the Caicus valley , for example , the colonists from distant Hyrcania , who had fought with their satrap at the Granicus , lived ...
Sivu 298
... lived in continual mistrust . For those who controlled them , the province had rich resources : river - gold , superlative horses , mines of silver and rubies , and in the north - eastern hills of Badakshan , the Persian empire's only ...
... lived in continual mistrust . For those who controlled them , the province had rich resources : river - gold , superlative horses , mines of silver and rubies , and in the north - eastern hills of Badakshan , the Persian empire's only ...
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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