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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... thousand archers and slingers and a thousand javelin throwers , whereas the home province of Persia could provide 30,000 trained slingers and archers whose composite bow could kill at a range of 200 yards . Only in infantry was the ...
... thousand archers and slingers and a thousand javelin throwers , whereas the home province of Persia could provide 30,000 trained slingers and archers whose composite bow could kill at a range of 200 yards . Only in infantry was the ...
Sivu 237
... thousand years afterwards , men draw maps to reconcile differences which ought to be left to conflict . To partici- pants , a battle is neither tidy nor explicable ; the earliest accounts of Gaugamela tell more of the mood of ...
... thousand years afterwards , men draw maps to reconcile differences which ought to be left to conflict . To partici- pants , a battle is neither tidy nor explicable ; the earliest accounts of Gaugamela tell more of the mood of ...
Sivu 238
... thousand Agrianians and javelin throwers had been placed to shoot them down at long range ; their volley was accurate , and such charioteers as continued soon found themselves being hauled off their platforms by the bravest units in ...
... thousand Agrianians and javelin throwers had been placed to shoot them down at long range ; their volley was accurate , and such charioteers as continued soon found themselves being hauled off their platforms by the bravest units in ...
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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