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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... needed the highlands ' loyalties , for their tribes con- trolled the passes and river beds down which the European barbarians of the north and north - west had tried to invade the plains by the sea . The highlanders also needed the ...
... needed the highlands ' loyalties , for their tribes con- trolled the passes and river beds down which the European barbarians of the north and north - west had tried to invade the plains by the sea . The highlanders also needed the ...
Sivu 134
... needed a fleet . ' This does so little justice to Alex- ander's foresight that it can only be pious publicity ; so far from not needing a fleet , let alone a Greek fleet , seven months later Alexander was forced to order his allied ...
... needed a fleet . ' This does so little justice to Alex- ander's foresight that it can only be pious publicity ; so far from not needing a fleet , let alone a Greek fleet , seven months later Alexander was forced to order his allied ...
Sivu 149
... needed a diversion to keep up morale . Word reached him of a local curiosity , a chariot in the palace of the former kings of Phrygia which was linked by legend to King Midas's accession at Gordium four hundred years before . It had ...
... needed a diversion to keep up morale . Word reached him of a local curiosity , a chariot in the palace of the former kings of Phrygia which was linked by legend to King Midas's accession at Gordium four hundred years before . It had ...
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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