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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Tulokset 1 - 3 kokonaismäärästä 88
Sivu 66
... never rule together . They belong more subtly to a hero's necessary ethic . ' Ever to be best and stand far above all others ' ; this was agreed to be one of Alexander's favourite lines in Homer . Personal excellence and the shifting of ...
... never rule together . They belong more subtly to a hero's necessary ethic . ' Ever to be best and stand far above all others ' ; this was agreed to be one of Alexander's favourite lines in Homer . Personal excellence and the shifting of ...
Sivu 96
... never been the slavish kingdom of an all - powerful master . Centralized rule is the victim of time and distance and in an empire where a royal letter could take three months to go from Phrygia to the Persian Gulf , power had had to be ...
... never been the slavish kingdom of an all - powerful master . Centralized rule is the victim of time and distance and in an empire where a royal letter could take three months to go from Phrygia to the Persian Gulf , power had had to be ...
Sivu 479
... never been firmly held anyway ; there the uprising collapsed within a year . Egypt , a part of Iran and the Punjab were indeed lost to the court at Babylon , but Egypt was detached because its new satrap Ptolemy pursued his ambition of ...
... never been firmly held anyway ; there the uprising collapsed within a year . Egypt , a part of Iran and the Punjab were indeed lost to the court at Babylon , but Egypt was detached because its new satrap Ptolemy pursued his ambition of ...
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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