Alexander the Great: his life and his mysterious death
"What can we learn from the stunning rise and mysterious death of the ancient world's greatest conqueror? An acclaimed biographer reconstructs the life of Alexander the Great in this magisterial portrait. More than two millennia have passed, but Alexander the Great is still a household nam...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "What can we learn from the stunning rise and mysterious death of the ancient world's greatest conqueror? An acclaimed biographer reconstructs the life of Alexander the Great in this magisterial portrait. More than two millennia have passed, but Alexander the Great is still a household name. His life was an adventure story and took him to every corner of the ancient world. His memory and glamour persist, and his early death at thirty-three has kept him evergreen in our imaginations with a legacy that meant something different to every age: in the Middle Ages he became an exemplar of knightly chivalry, he was a star of Renaissance paintings, and by the early twentieth century he even came to resemble an English gentleman. But who was he in his own time? In Alexander the Great, Anthony Everitt judges Alexander's life against the criteria of his own age and considers all his contradictions. We meet the Macedonian prince who was naturally inquisitive and fascinated by science and exploration, who enjoyed the arts and used the poet Homer's great epic, the Iliad, as a bible. As his empire grew, stretching from Greece and Macedonia to Ancient Egypt and Persia and all the way to India, Alexander exhibited respect for the traditions of his new subjects and careful judgment in administering rule over a vast territory. But his career also had a dark side. An inveterate conqueror, who in his short life built the largest empire to that point in history, Alexander glorified war and was known to commit acts of great cruelty. As debates continue about the meaning of his life, Alexander's death remains an unsolved mystery. Did he die of natural causes, felled by a fever, or did his marshals, angered by his tyrannical behavior, kill him? An explanation of his death can lie only in what we know of his life, and Everitt ventures to solve that puzzle, offering an ending to Alexander's story that has eluded so many for so long"-- The life of Alexander the Great took him to every corner of the ancient world. His memory and glamour persist, and his early death at thirty-three has kept him evergreen in our imaginations. But who was he in his own time? Naturally inquisitive, fascinated by science and exploration, Alexander exhibited respect for traditions as his empire grew-- yet glorified war and was known to commit acts of great cruelty. Did Alexander die of natural causes, or did his marshals, angered by his tyrannical behavior, kill him? Everitt judges Alexander's life against the criteria of his own age and considers all his contradictions. -- adapted from jacket |
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| 520 | 3 | |a "What can we learn from the stunning rise and mysterious death of the ancient world's greatest conqueror? An acclaimed biographer reconstructs the life of Alexander the Great in this magisterial portrait. More than two millennia have passed, but Alexander the Great is still a household name. His life was an adventure story and took him to every corner of the ancient world. His memory and glamour persist, and his early death at thirty-three has kept him evergreen in our imaginations with a legacy that meant something different to every age: in the Middle Ages he became an exemplar of knightly chivalry, he was a star of Renaissance paintings, and by the early twentieth century he even came to resemble an English gentleman. But who was he in his own time? In Alexander the Great, Anthony Everitt judges Alexander's life against the criteria of his own age and considers all his contradictions. We meet the Macedonian prince who was naturally inquisitive and fascinated by science and exploration, who enjoyed the arts and used the poet Homer's great epic, the Iliad, as a bible. As his empire grew, stretching from Greece and Macedonia to Ancient Egypt and Persia and all the way to India, Alexander exhibited respect for the traditions of his new subjects and careful judgment in administering rule over a vast territory. But his career also had a dark side. An inveterate conqueror, who in his short life built the largest empire to that point in history, Alexander glorified war and was known to commit acts of great cruelty. As debates continue about the meaning of his life, Alexander's death remains an unsolved mystery. Did he die of natural causes, felled by a fever, or did his marshals, angered by his tyrannical behavior, kill him? An explanation of his death can lie only in what we know of his life, and Everitt ventures to solve that puzzle, offering an ending to Alexander's story that has eluded so many for so long"-- | |
| 520 | 3 | |a The life of Alexander the Great took him to every corner of the ancient world. His memory and glamour persist, and his early death at thirty-three has kept him evergreen in our imaginations. But who was he in his own time? Naturally inquisitive, fascinated by science and exploration, Alexander exhibited respect for traditions as his empire grew-- yet glorified war and was known to commit acts of great cruelty. Did Alexander die of natural causes, or did his marshals, angered by his tyrannical behavior, kill him? Everitt judges Alexander's life against the criteria of his own age and considers all his contradictions. -- adapted from jacket | |
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| adam_text | INDEX Abdalonymus, ruler of Sidon, 166-67 Abisares, Indian ruler, 314, 315, 323 Abulites, satrap, 225 Acesines, Indian river, 314, 329, 331 Achilles, legendary Greek warrior, 11, 18, 19, 31, 93, 185, 326, 400 and Patroclus, 43 inspiration for Alexander, 43, 62, 71, 99, 100, 119, 120, 179, 217, 233, 295, 359-60, 362, 365-66, 380 Ada, queen of Caria, 131-32, 134 confirmed as queen by Alexander, 135 Aegae, original capital of Macedonia, 63, 66, 67, 69, 71, 75, 77, 101, 137, 205, 366 Aegean Sea, 4, 8, 47, 80, 81, 123, 125, 130,135, 136, 141, 144, 159, 163, 183, 195 Aelian, 359, 405 Aeschylus, tragedian, 380 The Myrmidons, 43 Africa (or Libya), 36, 170, 190, 223, 305, 330, 367, 368, 388 Agamemnon, legendary king of Mycenae, Greek commanderin-chief at Troy, 5, 11, 27, 55, 62, 99 Agathon, playwright, 12, 13 Agis, Spartan king plans revolt, 194—96 revolt, 221—23 Alcohol consumption, xiii—xiv Alexander I of Macedonia, 7, 9, 10, 11-12, 13, 14 Alexander II, 15, 16
446 I INDEX Alexander III of Macedonia, the Great, passim, ix—xi, xiii—xvi aims, strategies and tactics, 120, 138, 140, 159-60, 214-15, 368-69 appearance, 41 Arabian expedition, xi, xii, xiii, xiv, 367, 371, 377, 388, 395 army refuses to march further into India, 324—27 assessment, 386—88 atrocities, 95—96, 310, 323 in Babylon, 217—19 bankrupt, 110-12 battles, 51, 52, 112—20, 147-60, 196-201, 314-22 birth and early years, 3-4, 23-24 and Bucephalas, 31-32, 62, 90, 103, 116, 117, 205, 208, 269, 320,394 “casket copy” of the Iliad, 37, 162 and the cithara, 32—33 clears route to Persepolis, 227-30 consults oracle at Siwah, 186-88, 260,299,363,373, 382, 393 body hijacked by Ptolemy, 382-83 deification, Alexander considers, 299-301, 363-66 disbands all mercenaries, 345—46 drinking to excess? 290, 291—92 empire breaks up, 384, 387 education, 30—31 studies under Aristotle, 34-37 in Egypt, 180—89 in Ephesus, 123—25 eye infection (?), 270 Gedrosian disaster, 335-41 generalship, 89-91, 118—20, 158-59, 212-13 generosity, 244—46 Gordian knot, cuts through, 122 Greek rebellion, 91—92, 93—98 guerrilla warfare, 159, 271, 284, 317 hunting, 285-86 ill at Tarsus, 141, 142—43 invasion army, size of, 102—03 last words, xvi marches east to find Darius, 196-98 correspondence, 236-39 coarsening of personality, 346-48 crisis of soldiers’ morale, 252-54 death, x, xii-xvi, 373-75 marries Rhoxane, 295—96 mass marriages, 352—53 meets Apelles, 124—25 meets Diogenes, 78—79, 350 nearly killed at the Granicus, 117 poison or natural causes? 375-80
INDEX Opis mutiny, 354-57, 359, 376, 395 at Persepolis, 231-34, 235 Philotas crisis, addresses, 256, 256-62 Pixodarus affair, 64—65, 114, 131, 143,193, 257, 353 pro-Persian policy, 123, 217-18, 225, 233-34, 251-52, 296-97, 304-05,354, 356, 364 proskynesis experiment, 299 punishes many satraps, 344-45 pursues Darius, 246—48, 249 questions Persian envoys when a boy, 33 recognized as pharaoh, 181—82 recruits scientific experts, 103-04 regent in 340, 43-44, 48, 65, 85 reinforcements, 220, 330, 372 revolts in the north, 80-91 Royal Pages, 220, 301, 374, 394, 402 conspiracy of, 301—03 aftermath, 303-05 sexuality, x, 40—41, 41—43, 107-08, 120, 131-32, 163-65 sieges, 125—26, 127—30, 130-35, 139-40, 167-73, 174-77, 177-79 sits on Great King’s throne, 226 Thebes, destruction of, 95—97 tribal wars in Thrace, 80-84, 86-89 I 447 at Troy, 99-101 wounded, 155-56, 177-78, 179, 278, 280, 281, 301, 309, 331, 332-34, 395 Alexander IV, Alexander the Great’s son birth, 382 murder, 384 Alexander the Lyncestian, 70-71 imprisoned, 136—37 executed, 262 Alexandria Areion, 271 Alexandria in Egypt, foundation of, 184, 188-89 Alexandria Eschate, 278-79 Alexandria of the Caucasus, 374 Amanus Mountains, 140, 145, 148 Amanus Gates, 149 Amphipolis, Greek port in Chalcidice, 66, 81, 368 Anum (Ammon), Egyptian god, 185-88, 190, 257, 260, 265, 287,329,331, 355, 363, 364, 369 Amyntas I of Macedonia, 6—7, 11 Amyntas III of Macedonia, 14-15, 34 Amyntas IV, infant king of Macedonia, 15, 54, 60, 66, 70, 71, 86, 92, 201, 262 Amyntas, son of Andromèdes, 180, 220-21, 229, 262 Amyntas, son of Antiochus, 146, 159
448 I INDEX Amyntas, son of Arrhabaeus, 60, 133 Amyntas, son of Nicolaus, 295 Anatoba, 6, 8, 60, 65, 108, 109, 111, 121, 122, 136,141,159 Antipater, Macedonian general, 44, 55, 89,107-08,120,136, 156, 221, 234, 253,266,305, 350, 357, 374, 377, 378, 382, 384 death, 396 organizes Alexander’s succession to Phihp, 69, 71, 137, 381 recalled, 358, 373, 395 regent of Macedonia, appointed, 103 undermined by Olympias, 108, 223, 344,346,357-58, 378 war with Agis, 195, 221-23 Antigone, mistress of Philotas, 257 Aornos, rock fortress, capture of, 310-12 Aphrodite, goddess of love, 18, 26, 219 Apelles, artist, 124—25, 364 Apis, sacred bull, embodiment of god Ptah, 181 Apollo, god of prophecy, etc., 45, 46, 59, 79, 277, 300, 366, 368 Apollodorus, a Macedonian, 370-71 Arabia, xii, xiv, 367, 368, 371, 377, 388 Arachosia, Persian province, 271, 273, 278, 362,394 Archelaus I, king of Macedonia, 12-14,16, 17, 29, 41, 101 Areia, Persian province, 270, 273 Argos, city state in the Peloponnese, 11, 142 Ariobarzanes, satrap of Persis, 228-30 Aristander, Alexander’s seer, 121, 137,138, 171, 179,185,189, 192, 199, 206, 280, 281, 326, 366 Aristotle, Greek philosopher, 5, 14,40,102,128, 217, 299, 304,305,391, 402 appearance, 34 A.’s thought, 35—37 persuades Phihp to rebuild his hometown, Stageira, 34—35 “plots to kül Alexander,” 374, 378 tutor to, influence on, Alexander, 34—37, 42, 78, 84, 98, 101, 103, 106, 182-83,369 Army, Macedonian, passim, see also Chaeronea, Granicus, Issus, Gaugamela and Hydaspes, battles of, and guerrilla warfare Agrianians, Thracian tribe, 61, 80, 87, 88, 89, 94, 115,153,
154, 172, 203, 205, 207, 228, 229, 246,281, 330 battlefield surgery, 106-07 Companions, ehte cavalry, 20, 88, 102, 114, 115, 116, 117,118, 150, 153, 154, 155, 156, 158,
INDEX 170, 203, 206, 206-08,209, 211, 212, 228, 246, 247, 254, 255, 265,279, 281, 293, 319-20 Cretan archers, 115, 153 hypaspists, infantry, 114, 153, 203,319 life in the army, 104—07 military tactics, 20—22 phalanx, or Infantry Companions, effectiveness of, ļ 449 retires from office, 285, 286, 295, 391 Artaxerxes II, king of Persia, 38-39,155 Artaxerxes III Ochus, king of Persia, 73, 162, 163, 181, 243, 250, 251 Artemis, goddess of the hunt, 363-64,366,368 temple at Ephesus, 109, 124, 364 21, 23, 38, 40,105-96,151 Artemisia, wife of Mausolus, 131 royal bodyguards, xv, 5, 261, Asander, Parmenion’s brother (?), 285, 301, 302, 307, 348, 390 Thessalian cavalry, 21, 102, 115, 117, 137, 153, 153, 154-55, 156, 161, 203, 205-06, 209, 210, 211, 228, 244, 275, 394 training and discipline, 22-23 Arrian, xv, 83, 85, 87, 88, 95,110, 283 Ashurbanipal, king of NeoAssyrian empire, 223 Asclepiodotus, military strategist, 21 Asclepius, god of healing, 29, 116, 118, 124, 133, 142, 176, 106, 148 Aspendus, city in Pamphilia, 138 188, 201, 207, 208, 209, 211, Astronomers/Chaldeans, 198—99, 233, 247, 249, 274, 276, 283-84,290,294, 295, 312, 313, 314-15, 319, 320, 324, 325, 216, 217 Athena, goddess of wisdom, etc., 56, 78, 100, 119, 157, 192, 369 329, 330, 332-33, 334, 335, Athens/Athenians, xiii, 7, 11, 14, 338, 339, 341, 345, 346-47, 16-17, 32, 34, 46, 65, 67, 70, 354, 355, 358, 360-61, 365, 74, 77, 90, 91-92, 94, 102, 367, 377, 378, 404-05 Arsites, Persian commander at the Granicus, 110, 118 Artabazus, Persian satrap, 108—09, 163,164,240-41, 242, 247-48, 268 supports Alexander, 268—69, 275,
284 103, 119, 126, 127, 163, 195, 222, 230,232,233, 305, 348, 349, 365, 378, 383, 400 assessment, 47—49 backed Ionian revolt, 8 drama productions, 193-94 Peloponnesian war, 12, 300 Persian invasion (490 b.c.), 8—9
450 ļ INDEX Bagoas, young eunuch, 268, 282, 285, 341, 342, 343-44, 347, 360 Balkan/Haemus mountains, 6, 9, 81, 82, 111, 119 Bardylis, Illyrian king, 17, 83—84 Barsine, lover of Alexander, 108-09,136,163-64, 384, 391, 396 Batis, commander of Gaza, 178, 179 Bel-Marduk, Babylonian god, 217 Bessus, satrap of Bactria, 239, 240,241-42, 247-49, 252, 253,268, 270, 271-72, 273, 274, 278, 279 Babylon, xi—xii, xiv, 33, 109, arrested, surrendered to 142, 145, 159, 171, 197, 198, Alexander and executed, 215-19, 220, 225, 230, 243, 247, 327, 330, 348-49,351, 275-77 358, 361, 362, 364, 366, 368, claims the crown as Artaxerxes 369, 370, 371, 373, 375, 377, V, 247, 394 380, 381, 382, 383, 392,393, commanded cavalry at 395, 401 Gaugamela, 202, 207—08, 210, temple prostitution, 218—19 212, 214 Bactra, capital of Bactria, 274, Black Sea/Euxine, 6, 39, 45, 47, 276, 279, 394 56, 110, 140, 284 Bactria or Bactriana, satrapy north Boeotia/Boeotians, region of of Hindu Kush/Bactrians, 202, Greece, 10,15, 20, 55, 92, 207, 214, 239, 241, 242, 246, 94, 95 247, 248, 249, 270, 273, 274, Bosporus, strait connecting Black 275, 277, 279, 282-86, 292, Sea and Aegean Sea, 45, 48 293, 295, 296, 309, 317, 348, Brahmins, 78, 334, 350—51, 385, 387, 393, 394, 395 408 Bagoas, eunuch, the Great King’s Branchidae, Milesian clan, 277—78 chief executive officer, 73—74, Bucephala, 320, 324, 328 250, 268 Bulgaria, 6 Athens/Athenians (conťd): Persian invasion (480 в.с.), 9—11 Piraeus, port of Athens, 48, 126 population and wealth fall, 47-48 war with Philip, 49-51, 55-57 Attālus, leading Macedonian, 60, 62, 64, 68, 70,
72, 74, 77, 114, 260, 264, 287, 289, 392 Attica, the territory of Athens, 8, 55 Azemilcus, king of Tyre, 169, 177, 192
NDEX Cadmea, citadel of Thebes, 91, 95 Cadusii, an Iranian people, 239 Callisthenes, philosopher and publicist, 102, 147, 217, 224, 289, 302, 304-05, 369, 374, 377,394, 402 prosky nesis, 299 Callixeina, a prostitute, 41-42 Cardaces, Persian light infantry, 151, 154, 155 Carmania, Persian province, 336, 340,342,344, 395 Carthage, Mediterranean maritime state, 170, 172, 177, 367, 368 Caspian Sea, 243, 246, 267, 367 Cassander, son of Antipater, 358, 374-75, 384, 395 Cebalinus, brother of Nicomachus, 255—56, 257, 258,259, 263 Celaenae, city in Phrygia, 138-39 Chaeronea, battle of, 49—51, 52, 53, 55, 58, 62, 70, 97, 98, 140, 195, 286,392 Chalcidice, 4, 34, 45, 66 Charidemus, Greek mercenary commander, 145 Cleander, killer of Parmenion, 261, 345, 349 Cleitus, Macedonian commander, 117, 120, 266, 293, 376, 394, 403 murder of, 286—90, 291, 292, 326,373 I 4SI Cleitus, ruler of the Dardant, 72, 83, 84, 86-89, 90 Cleomenes, corrupt official in Egypt, 183, 188, 363 Cleopatra, daughter of Philip, 63, 66, 223, 344, 391, 392 Cleopatra, Philip’s last wife, 60, 61, 75, 92, 107, 392 Clytemnestra, legendary queen of Mycenae, 27 Coenus, Greek general, 229, 247, 258, 259, 260, 284, 293, 319, 325-26, 345 Companions, courtiers close to the king, 5, 22, 44, 70, 111, 137, 164, 183, 191, 225, 238, 245, 251, 276, 285, 286,288, 289, 299, 303 Corinth, city-state on Isthmus of Corinth, 27, 78, 79, 92, 96, 164 League of, 56, 57, 58, 77, 91, 95, 98, 102, 136, 163, 194, 200, 205, 223, 233, 244, 269, 366, 392 Craterus, Macedonian general, 37, 228,229,230,238,257, 258, 260, 263, 270, 279, 280, 284, 292, 296,
304, 315, 315-17, 318, 320, 322, 373, 395 on poor terms with Hephaestion, 252, 291, 330—31 marches west to Carmania, 336 ordered to Macedonia, 358, 362 Cunaxa, battle of, 40, 155
452 I INDEX Curtius Rufus, Quintus, Roman historian, 147, 149, 151, 178, 322, 345, 345-47, 352, 385, 392, 393, 394 184, 209, 218, 222, 233, 236, assessment, 249—51 240, 252, 256, 262,263, 269, death of Darius’s wife, Stateira, 272-73, 277-78, 285-86, 291, 200 293, 295, 300, 304, 306-07, deposition and death, 239—42, 309, 313, 314, 343, 347, 362, 246-49, 268, 269, 276, 279 382, 404 Cynane, Alexander’s sister, 60, 86 flees eastward, 214—15, 218, 222, 235 at Gaugamela, 191, 192, Cynicism, school of 199-203, 207-08, 210-13 philosophy, 78 at Issus, 148-49, 150, 151-60, Cyprus, 159, 168, 170, 173, 194, 368, 388 180 peace offers, 165—66, 200—01 Cyropolis, 278, 279, 280 Delos, Cycladic island, 56, 368 Cyrus the Great, 6, 73, 127, 278, Delphi, city-state, 10, 13, 45, 46, 395 tomb, 232, 272, 342-43 Cyrus the Younger, 38—39, 40, 155 49, 239 oracle, 59—60, 79—80, 96, 368 Amphictyony of Delphi, 46, 49, 77 Demades, Athenian politician, 55, Damascus, Syrian city, 148, 156, 157, 161-63, 257 Danube/Ister, river, 6, 80, 81, 82-83, 327, 384 Darius I of Persia, the Great, 6, 7, 8, 9, 48, 58, 80, 103, 119, 230, 231, 234, 307 Darius III Codomannus, 73—74, 77, 109, 110, 116, 117, 118, 122, 98, 365, 373, 381 Demaratus, Corinthian merchant, 32, 62-63,116, 226 Demeter, goddess of the harvest, 35 Demetrius, bodyguard of Alexander, 254, 261, 263 Demosthenes, Athenian orator, 13, 56, 62-63, 66, 74, 77, 91, 135, 136-37, 138, 140, 142, 92, 98, 196, 349-50, 365, 391, 143, 144-47, 161, 162, 163, 404 170, 183, 190, 194, 195, 197, 198, 225, 226,234,239-40, 243, 251, 260-61, 267, 268, Diades, military
engineer, 126, 127, 171 Dimnus, conspirator, 254—56, 259
INDEX Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian, 68, 69, 73, 117, 133, 134, 135,144,165,170, 220, 18, 361, 369,403 Diogenes, Greek philosopher, 70, 78-79, 350 Diogenes Laertius, biographer, 377 Diomedes, legendary Greek warrior, 173 Dionysus, god of wine and ecstasy, xiii, 28—29, 67, 193, 300, 306,307,312-13, 384, 394 Drangiana, Persian province, 362 Ecbatana, Persian summer capital, 6, 235, 236, 239, 243, 246, 252, 261, 277, 349, 354, 359, 362, 364, 393, 395 Egypt/Egyptians, 6, 19, 38, 107, 109, 131, 155, 159, 160, 168, 170, 171, 177, 180, 181-84, 185, 186, 189, 193, 195, 199, 216, 223, 236, 237, 245, 250, 257, 260, 306,363,367, 368, 383,387,402, 403 Epaminondas, Theban general, 16, 20 Ephesus, 109, 123—24, 364 Ephialtes, Athenian soldier, 133-134,139 Ephippus the Olynthian, historian contemporary with Alexander, 290 ļ 453 Epigoni or Successors, 297, 354 Epimenes, Royal Pages conspirator, 303 Epirus, coastal kingdom in northwestern Greece, 24, 25, 26, 27, 45, 61, 63, 66, 77, 223, 295 Eresos, town in Lesbos, 237-38 Erigyius, Greek follower of Alexander, 258, 272 Esagila, temple of Bel-Marduk, 217, 369-70 Eumenes, Greek secretary, 44, 236, 359, 362,376, 378 Euphrates river, xi, 37, 141, 155, 171, 197, 200, 202, 368, 371, 375, 393 Eurydice, queen of Macedonia, 14-15, 27, 54,69 Eurylochus, brother of Epimenes, 303 Euripides, tragedian, 12—13, 348, 369, 370, 387 Andromeda, xiii The Bacchae, 29 Medea, 72 The Trojan Women, 93 Andromache, 288 Ezekiel, Jewish prophet, 168—69, 177 fleet, see navy friendship, or philia, nature of, 84-86
4S4 I INDEX Gaza, siege of, 177-79 Gaugamela, battle of, 191-93, 201-13 Macedonian numbers, 203 Persian numbers, 201-02 preliminaries, 196—201 Gedrosia (the Makran), part of coastal Baluchistan, 335—36 Alexander’s march through, 335-41 casualties, 339 fleet delayed, 340 Getae, Thracian tribe, 82-83 Glaucias, Hephaestion’s doctor, 360-61 Glaucias, Illyrian king of the Taulantians, 84, 86—89, 90 Gordium, capital of Phrygia, 122, 136, 138, 139, 141 Gordius, legendary farmer, 121-22 Granicus, battle of, 109—10, 112-19 Greece/Hellas/Hellene/Hellenic, passim, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 15, 19, 22, 25, 27, 31, 36, 39, 40, 42, 45, 48, 49, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 66, 67, 68, 70, 75, 77, 85, 90, 91, 94, 96, 97, 98, 103, 104, 106, 108, 109, 110, 119, 124, 128, 130, 135, 144, 145, 146, 153, 166, 170, 171, 182, 188, 193, 194, 221, 222, 223, 231, 233, 236, 258, 277, 284,285, 388, 299, 306, 325, 330, 346, 349, 357, 358, 359, 364, 365, 372, 383, 384, 387, 394, 395 Hagnon, courtier and pandar, 164 Halicarnassus, Ionian city and port, siege of, 130—35 Hammurabi, lawgiver king of Babylon, 216, 219 Hanging Gardens of Babylon, xi, xii, xiv, 33, 215, 216 Harpalus, Alexander’s treasurer, 143-44, 196, 243, 330, 348-50, 395 Hecatomnus, dynast of Halicarnassus, 130 Hector, legendary prince of Troy, 93, 179 Hector, son of Parmenion, 114, 184, 262 Hegelochus, leading Macedonian, 260,263 Helen of Troy, 18, 184 Hephaestion, Alexander’s close friend/lover, 42, 43, 93, 100-01, 167, 178, 196, 197, 211, 251, 258, 260, 266, 268, 284, 291, 299, 309, 313, 323, 330, 334, 336, 342, 352, 354,
364,365, 370, 400 death, 360—62 deputy to Alexander, 262 hero cult, 363, 373, 394, 395 mistaken for Alexander, 157-58 quarrels with Craterus, 252, 330-31
INDEX quarrels with Olympias, 233, 238 unpopular with colleagues, 238-39 Hera, queen of the gods, 53, 107 Heracles, demigod, “ancestor” of Alexander, 36, 54, 78, 83, 93, 124, 157, 164, 168, 169, 171, 185,186, 217, 300, 306,307, 311, 312, 313, 329, 335, 364, 365,366 Heracles, Alexander’s son by Barsine, 164, 384, 396 Hermes, legendary messenger of the gods, 364 Hermolaus, Royal Page, 302, 303, 304 Herodotus, Greek historian, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 79, 130, 159, 164, 168,219, 243, 298, 306,405 Hesiod, Greek poet, 44 Hindu Kush, mountain range, 273, 278, 308, 309, 394 Hittites, a people in Anatolia, 19 Homer/Homeric, x, 5, 19, 27, 31, 71, 100 Iliad, x, 18, 37, 43, 45, 84, 106, 116, 120,173-74, 179, 273, 295, 301, 358, 362, 386 Odyssey, 37, 84, 184 Hydaspes, battle of, 313—22 Alexander crosses the river, 313-17 the battle, 318—20 casualties, 320 death of Porus’s son, 318 I 455 Alexander and Porus make friends, 322 Hydaspes, river, 308, 313-14, 318, 322, 323, 328, 329,330, 331 Hyrcania, Persian province, 239 Iphicrates, Athenian general, admired by Alexander, 163 Illyria/Illyrians, 3, 15, 16-17, 47, 62, 66, 70, 80, 83-84, 89, 92, 103, 392 India/Indians, xi, xiii, 6, 36, 78, 104, 242, 252, 283-84, 295, 296, 301, 306-07, 308, 310, 312, 313, 322, 323, 324, 327, 329, 332, 334, 335, 336, 341, 344, 345, 347, 348, 350, 366, 367, 376, 385, 388, 394, 403, 404, 405 Indus River, xi, 305, 306, 307, 308, 309,310, 312, 313-14, 322, 323, 324, 327, 328, 331, 334, 341, 367, 387, 394, 395, 403, 405 Iolaus, Heracles’ legendary nephew and lover, shrine of, 93 Iolaus, son of Antipater, “poisoner” of
Alexander, 374, 375, 376, 378 Ionia/Ionian, city-states of, 8, 33, 48, 111, 120, 123, 124, 128, 130, 138, 144, 231 Isocrates, orator and public intellectual, 33, 35, 57, 58, 59, 96, 140, 165
456 NDEX 61, 66, 67, 69, 70, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 80, 83, 84, 90, 107,118, 140,144,160, 205, 227, 252, 325, 358, 382, 383, 386, 387, 391, 392, 395, 403 description, 4 gold and silver mines, 46 Jason of the Argonauts, legendary Persia annexes M., 6—7 adventurer, 27—28, 72 Machaon, legendary Trojan Jaxartes, river, 278, 279, 280 surgeon, 106 Justin, Latin writer, 9, 16, 45, 91, Malh, hostile tribe in the Punjab, 254, 403 331-33, 344,353, 372, 380, 395 Lade, island off Miletus, 128, 129 Maracanda (Samarkand), capital Langarus, king of the Agrianians, of Sogdiana, 278, 279, 282, 80, 84, 85-86 Leonidas, Alexander’s paedogogus, 283, 284, 286,290, 293 Marathon, battle of, 8—9, 24 30-31 Mardians, Hyrcanian tribe, 269 Leonnatus, boyhood friend of Alexander, 69, 245, 258, 289, Marmara, sea of, 6 303, 332, 333, 336, 340, 341, Massagetae, Scythian tribe, 292 375 Mausolus, dynast of Leuctra, battle of, 20, 45, 56 Halicarnassus, 130—31 Lucian, Greek satirist, 29-30, 342 Mazaeus, leading Persian, 197-98, Lycia, 138, 329 202, 209, 211, 214, 215-16, Lysander, Spartan general, 300 217-18 Lysimachus, royal bodyguard, Medea, legendary witch, 27—28 285-86 Médius, xiv, xv, 374 Lysimachus, tutor to Alexander, Mediterranean Sea, 6, 8, 22, 25, 31, 173 34, 39, 65, 84, 123, 126, 140, Lysippus, Greek sculptor, 41, 118, 160, 168, 170, 173, 177, 184, 133 189, 239, 286, 306, 330, 335, 366,368, 387 Macedon/Macedonia, x, xvi, 3, 4, Megalopolis, battle of, 222, 234, 8, 9, 12, 15, 16, 17, 22, 24, 26, 357, 393 27, 32, 33, 44, 49, 51, 58, 60, Megara, Greek city-state, 78, 144 Issus, battle of, 151—60
casualties, 156 Persian army numbers, 145 preliminaries, 144—50 Italy, 8, 164, 196, 223
INDEX Meleager, Macedonian general, 308,381 Melqart, tutelary god of Tyre, 168, 169, 170, 177 Memnon, Greek mercenary general, 108-09, 115, 118, 124, 129, 132,144,145, 146,162, 163, 170,183, 198, 237, 250, 391, 392 advises scorched earth policy, 110, 111 at Halicarnassus, 133-35 death, 136, 392 Memphis, Egyptian city, 159, 181, 190, 383,393 Menelaus, legendary king of Sparta, 18, 184 Mentor, Memnon’s brother, 108-09,145,163 Mesopotamia, xi, 11, 141, 146, 191, 197, 198, 215, 224, 336, 382 Metron, Royal Page, 255, 259 Midas, 121—22 Mieza, or Gardens of Midas, 35, 43, 85 Miletus, siege of, 127-30 Mithrenes, Persian nobleman, 123,218 Mithridates, Darius Ill’s son-inlaw, 116—17 Molossia/Molossians, tribe in Epirus, 25, 185, 223, 391, 392 Mount Mycale, 128, 129, 130 I 457 Mount Olympus, 4, 9, 13, 101 Muses, goddesses of literature, arts and astronomy, 13, 15, 101 Nabarzanes, chief executive officer of Darius III, 240, 241, 242, 247, 249 gifts for Alexander, including Bagoas, 268 Nakhthorheb (Nectanebo), 180 Naptha, 224 Navy/fleet, Macedonian, xi, xii, xiii, 102, 128, 129, 132, 135, 138, 144, 170-71, 174, 175, 176, 178, 180, 189, 221, 328, 329-30,333, 334-35, 336, 338, 339-41, 354, 368, 371, 386, 391, 394, 395, 405 Alexander disbands fleet, 130 Alexander commissions new fleet, 136, 138 Navy/fleet, Persian, 8-9, 103, 109, 123, 128-30,132, 135, 141, 144, 159-60, 162, 169, 170, 171, 172-73, 174, 195, 257 Nearchus, Macedonian admiral, xiii, xiv, 44, 66, 283, 329, 337, 340-41, 368, 375, 377, 395, 403, 405 Nebuchadnezzar II, xii, 216 Neoptolemus, Greek actor, 67 Neoptolemus, son of
Achilles, 100,185 Neoptolemus, son of Arrhabaeus, 132, 133
458 I INDEX Nicanor, son of Parmenion, 114, 184, 262, 264, 376 Nicaea, city of victory, 320, 321, 328 Nicesopolis, one of Philip’s wives, 47 Nicomachus, boyfriend of Dimnus, 254—55, 257, 258, 259-60 Nik, river, 181, 183, 184, 190, 306 Ocean, 36, 192, 252, 305, 306, 307, 324,327,334,367, 388 Odysseus, legendary hero of the Odyssey, 85, 125, 173 Oedipus, legendary king of Thebes, 95, 186 Olympia, town in Elis, 53-54 Olympias, Alexander’s mother, also called Polyxena and Myrtale, 3, 30, 34, 41-42, 45, 47, 52, 54, 92, 107, 119, 223, 224, 236, 295, 350, 391, 392 promotes/interferes in Alexander’s interests, 24, 41-42, 71-72, 108 cruelty, 72, 92-93, 384 death, 384, 396 meets/marries Philip II, 25-27 perhaps implicated in Philip II’s assassination, 71-73, 185—86, 188 quarrels with Antipater, 223, 344, 357, 373, 377, 378 Alexander’s relationship with, 24, 60, 92-93, 107, 108, 119, 185, 357 relationship with Philip II, 28, 47, 60, 61, 62, 63 religious fervor, 28—30 writes/receives letters, 27, 132, 238,245, 257 Olympic Games, 3, 10, 11, 13, 35, 36, 53, 342, 346,395 Olynthus, city in Chalcidice, 96 Onesicritus, royal helmsman, 329, 373, 378, 403 Oreitae, a hostile tribe in Gedrosia, 336, 340, 341 Orestes, king of Macedonia, 14 Orontobates, usurping satrap of Caria, 131, 134, 135 Orxines, senior Persian robbed Cyrus’s tomb, 343-44 Oxyartes, Rlioxane’s father, 295, 296 Oxyathres, Darius Ill’s brother, 155, 162, 251-52, 276 Oxydracae, hostile tribe in Punjab, 331 Oxus, river, 274, 275, 278, 280, 283,284,394 Paeonia/Paeonians, kingdom north of Macedonia, 16, 17, 61, 115, 153, 205, 207
INDEX Pammenes, Theban general, 15-16, 20 Pamphilia, Persian province, 329 Paraetonium, Egyptian coastal town, 186 Parapamisadae, Persian province, 273 Paris, legendary prince of Troy, 18, 100 Parmenion, Macedonian general, 3, 60, 64, 65, 70, 87, 89, 99, 102, 109, 136, 137, 139, 141, 143, 148, 149,153, 155,156, 157, 161, 162, 164-65, 183-84, 201, 202, 209, 210-11, 228, 243, 257, 267, 272, 279, 283, 287, 289, 392 advice to Alexander, 107—08, 114-15, 117, 120, 123, 125, 128, 147, 164, 165, 191, 192-93, 200, 203, 233, 376-77 execution, 261, 345, 373 Philotas “plot,” 258, 259, 260-61, 262, 263-64, 266 sons, 114 Parthia, Persian province, 239 Pasargadae, old capital of Persian empire, 232, 350 Patroclus, legendary lover of Achilles, 43, 71, 100, 360-61, 362,365-66 Patron, Greek mercenary commander, 239, 241—42, 249 ļ 459 Pattala, Indus delta port, 334 Pausanias, Philip’s assassin, 64, 68-69, 71, 72-73, 77 Pausanias, spurned lover of Philip, 64 Pausanias, Spartan commander at Plataea, 10 Pelium, fort in Thrace, 84, 86—89, 90, 91, 94 Pelopidas, Theban general, 20 Peloponnese, 7, 27, 47, 53, 56, 91, 142, 194, 195, 196, 220, 221, 222 Pella, Macedonian capital, 3, 13, 15, 16, 23, 29-30, 32, 33, 34, 41, 44, 54, 63, 64, 74, 77, 111, 156, 163, 195, 223, 268, 305, 391, 392, 402 Pelusium, Egyptian frontier town, 180 Perdiccas, Macedonian general, xv, xvi, 68, 69, 70, 86, 92, 94, 111, 133, 139, 238-39, 258, 262, 284, 289, 333, 359, 361, 375,381, 382 Perdiccas II of Macedonia, 12, 14 Perdiccas III of Macedonia, 15, 16, 17, 60, 61, 66 Persephone, goddess of the underworld, 71 Persepolis, 74,
159, 215, 222, 227, 228-32, 235, 236, 243, 244, 249, 336 destruction, 232—34, 393, 395
460 [ INDEX Persia/Persian empire/Persians, Philip II, Alexander’s father, 3, passim, x, xi, 6, 7, 8, 9-10, 23, 4-5, 13, 31-32, 44, 49, 68, 69, 33, 47, 48, 57-58, 59, 60, 62, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 67, 70, 73, 74 , 75, 78, 80, 81, 78, 80, 84, 85, 97, 98, 102, 94, 95, 109, 110, 112, 124, 104, 107, 108, 109, 111, 119, 125-26, 130, 132, 135, 138, 123-24, 134,136, 143, 145, 140, 144, 145, 160, 161, 162, 165, 201, 236, 246, 257, 260, 169, 180-81, 182, 190, 195, 264, 265, 286-87, 289, 300, 212, 213, 216, 221, 225, 227, 355, 363, 365, 366, 369, 376, 230, 231, 251, 252, 272, 276, 381, 385, 386-87, 391, 392, 283, 285, 295-96,304,322, 402 327, 343, 347, 376, 387, 391, 392, 393, 394, 405-06 empire’s weakness, 39—40, 250-51 Persian Gulf, xi, 327, 335, 354, 368, 388, 395, 403, 405 Phaeacia, legendary kingdom in the Odyssey, 85 Pharnabazus, Memnon’s nephew, 136, 138, 162, 183, 195 Pharnuces, Lycian interpreter, 282-83 Pharos, lighthouse, 189 assassination, 66-69, 132—33, 166,185-86,187, 188, 245, 250, 262,357 as teenager, 15—16 becomes king of Macedonia, 17 builds empire, 45-46 character, 19 deification, possible adoption of, 54 gold and silver mines/ coinage, 46 leadership of Greece, 49—51, 55-57 Phaselis, Lycian port, 138 marriages, 26—27, 46—47, 60 Philotas, Parmenion’s son, 65, 87, military reforms, 20—23, 45, 114, 115, 130, 180, 184, 188, 226,229 “plot” to kill Alexander, 254-61, 262-66 execution, 261 Philoxenus, commander and pandar, 164 Philip of Acarnania, doctor, 142-43, 177 125-26,134, 140 Philippeum, 53-54 plans invasion of Persia, 57-60 profligacy of his court, 22—23
relations with Alexander, 24, 31-32, 33, 34-35,37, 41-42, 43-44, 52, 60-63, 64-66, 89-90
INDEX relations with Olympias, 26-27, 28 war with Athens, 48—51 Philip III Arrhidaeus, 65, 381, 384, 396 Phocis, state in central Greece, 45,46 Phoenix, tutor to Achilles, 31 Pillar ofJonah, 148, 150 Pillars of Hercules (Gibraltar), 36, 368 Pinarus river, 151, 154, 155, 157 Pindar, Greek poet, 11-12, 96-97, 300 Plataea/Plataeans, battle of, 9-10, II, 95-96, 221 Plato, Greek philosopher, 8, 12, 14, 34, 78-79, 84 The Republic, 13 The Symposium, 12, 43 Pliny the Elder, Roman encyclopedist, 103—04 Polybius, Greek historian, 55, 265, 405 Porus, king of the Pauravas, 308, 314, 315-17, 318-19, 320-22, 323,324,341 Porus, Indian king, 323 Protesilaus, legendary Greek warrior, 99 Plutarch, biographer and essayist, 19, 28, 29, 33, 35, 41, 42, 50, 52, 61, 65, 70, 74, 77, 98, 107, III, 118, 131-32, 156-57, 162, 164, 173, 182, 192, 212, 214, I 461 224, 231, 232, 236, 237, 244, 245, 252, 256,292,301, 304, 339, 349, 351, 352, 358, 361, 362, 372, 373,378,379, 387, 404 Polemon, son of Andromenes, 262 Poseidon, god of the sea, 56, 78, 99-100, 329, 334,365 Priam, legendary king of Troy, 100 Prometheus, legendary Titan, 273-74 Ptolemy, queen Eurydice’s lover, 16 Ptolemy, son of Lagus, 135, 156, 232,275-76, 284, 285, 289, 303, 311, 361, 375, 402, 403, 404, 405 hijacks Alexander’s dead body, 383 Punjab, xi, 36, 306, 324, 340, 341, 400 Pythian Games, 13, 129 Red Sea, 307, 367 Rhodes, largest island of Dodecanese, 108, 130, 163, 173 Rhoxane, Alexander’s wife, 295-96, 328-29, 342, 375, 383,396 Rome, 367 Royal Journal, 359, 378, 401, 402 Sacred Band, Theban regiment of lovers, 16, 23, 42, 50, 51
Sacred War, 45—46
462 I INDEX Sogdian Rock, mountain Salamis, battle of, 9, 24 Samothrace, Mysteries of, 25—26, stronghold, capture of, 257 293-94, 295, 394 Sandrocottus (Chandragupta), Sogdiana, Persian province, 239, founder of Mauryan empire, 274, 275, 277, 278, 279, 280, 341 282, 283, 284-85, 293, 296, Sangala, Indian town, 323 309,317, 348 Sardanapalus, Assyrian king, 147 Soli, Cilician port, 147 Sardis, capital of Lydia, 8, 9, 39, Sophocles, Athenian tragedian, 103, 123,130,218 34,348, 387 Satibarzanes, satrap, 270—71, Sostratus, Royal Page, 302 272-73 Sparta/Spartans, 7, 12, 16, 18, 20, Scythia/Scythians, 6, 48—49, 56, 47, 56, 119, 136, 163, 184, 70, 202, 207, 239, 280-83, 194-95, 221, 300, 346, 349, 292, 293, 367 365 Seven Wonders of the Ancient war with Macedonia, 194—95, World, xi, 189 221,222, 223 Sematawytefnakht, Egyptian Spitamenes, Sogdian warlord, collaborator, 180 275, 279, 282-83, 284, 287, Sexual mores, 12—13, 15—16, 292-93, 394 22-23, 40-41, 42-43 Stateira, Darius Ill’s wife, 148—49, Sicily, 8, 126, 205, 348, 368, 403 162 Sidon, Phoenician city, 159, death, 200 166-67, 169, 170, 172, 173, Susa, Persian city, 6, 33, 39, 40, 174, 176, 393 110, 159, 195, 215, 219, 221, capitulates to Alexander, 167 222, 224-25, 226, 227, 230, Sisikottos (Shashigupta), Indian 243, 247, 352, 354, 362,393, dynast, 308 395 Sisines, Persian nobleman, 136-37 Taenarum, Sparta’s port, 349, Sisygambis, mother of Darius III, 350 148, 157-58, 162, 209, Tarsus, city in Cilicia, 142, 226-27,373 147 Slavery, 36-37, 63, 91, 239, 280 Taxiles, ruler of Taxila, 308, Socrates, Greek philosopher, 13, 323 34,
79, 84, 304 Telmissus, Lycian city, 138
INDEX Tenedos, Chios and Cos, Greek islands, break with Persia, 183 Thais, a courtesan, 232—33 Thales, thinker and politician, 127-28 Thar Desert, northwest of Indian subcontinent, 307, 334 Thebes/Thebans, city-state in Boeotia, 15—16, 26, 46, 49, 50, 51, 56, 70, 77, 90, 91-92, 163, 186, 194 Alexander captures and razes, 93-97, 98, 133, 177, 232, 233-34, 310, 392 Theopompus, Greek historian, 22-23, 46,48, 348 Thersites, troublemaker in the Iliad, 5, 55 Thermopylae, 45, 77, 92 Thessaly, region of northern Greece, 31, 41, 45, 47, 77, 92 Tigris, river, 197, 202, 354, 355, 369, 393 Timocleia, Theban woman, 97 Thrace, region in southeast Europe, 6, 10-11, 25, 45, 46, 76, 80, 81, 89, 90, 91, 95, 109, 115,221,326,330,360, 384, 392 Thracian Chersonese, 43, 48, 56 Thrasybulus, Athenian soldier, 133 Thrasymachus, Greek philosopher, 13 Triballians, Thracian tribe, 80, 82-83 I 463 Troy/Trojan War, 5, 18-19, 27, 55, 62, 93, 99-101, 106, 116, 125-26, 184, 233, 273, 332, 333, 365-66, 369 Tullius Cicero, Marcus, Roman orator, 54, 71 Turkey, 6, 122, 123,138,165 Tyre, Phoenician city, siege of, 167-73, 174-77, 178, 184, 193, 221, 367, 368, 393 Alexander’s Homeric adventure, 173 causeway built, 171—72 city’s wall breached, 176 description, 168-69 festival in the ruins, 193—94, 196 maritime blockade, 174 Phoenician fleet changes sides, 172-73 Uxii, Persian tribe, 227—28 Women, status of, 27—28 Wedding ofAlexander and Rhoxane, by Echion, 342 Xenophon, Athenian adventurer, 37-39, 40, 48, 73, 117, 150 Anabasis, 38, 40, 58, 155, 159, 207,405 Xerxes, king of Persia, 217, 231, 234 invasion of
Greece, 9—11, 48, 58, 94, 104, 119, 222, 230, 277, 372 looted Greek art, 222, 372
464 I INDEX Zadracarta, city in Hyrcania, 267, 270 Zeus, king of the gods, 4, 13, 26, 28, 53, 56, 78, 83,101,107, 118,121, 122,123,124, 157, 165, 331, 364, 366, 368 “father” of Alexander, 185, 187,190, 192, 206, 239, 244, 257,260, 265, 299-300, 309, 322, 329,355, 363, 365, 369 Zeuxis, painter, 13
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| spelling | Everitt, Anthony 1940- Verfasser (DE-588)113528556X aut Alexander the Great his life and his mysterious death Anthony Everitt First edition New York Random House [2019] © 2019 xviii, 464 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln Illustrationen, Karten txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Alexander takes a holiday -- Goat kings -- The young apprentice -- 'The bull is wreathed' -- The lone wolf -- First blood -- Undoing the knot -- The empire strikes back -- Immortal longings -- At the house of the camel -- 'Passing brave to be a king' -- Treason! -- War without end -- A passage to India -- Show me the way to go home -- Last things -- Funeral games "What can we learn from the stunning rise and mysterious death of the ancient world's greatest conqueror? An acclaimed biographer reconstructs the life of Alexander the Great in this magisterial portrait. More than two millennia have passed, but Alexander the Great is still a household name. His life was an adventure story and took him to every corner of the ancient world. His memory and glamour persist, and his early death at thirty-three has kept him evergreen in our imaginations with a legacy that meant something different to every age: in the Middle Ages he became an exemplar of knightly chivalry, he was a star of Renaissance paintings, and by the early twentieth century he even came to resemble an English gentleman. But who was he in his own time? In Alexander the Great, Anthony Everitt judges Alexander's life against the criteria of his own age and considers all his contradictions. We meet the Macedonian prince who was naturally inquisitive and fascinated by science and exploration, who enjoyed the arts and used the poet Homer's great epic, the Iliad, as a bible. As his empire grew, stretching from Greece and Macedonia to Ancient Egypt and Persia and all the way to India, Alexander exhibited respect for the traditions of his new subjects and careful judgment in administering rule over a vast territory. But his career also had a dark side. An inveterate conqueror, who in his short life built the largest empire to that point in history, Alexander glorified war and was known to commit acts of great cruelty. As debates continue about the meaning of his life, Alexander's death remains an unsolved mystery. Did he die of natural causes, felled by a fever, or did his marshals, angered by his tyrannical behavior, kill him? An explanation of his death can lie only in what we know of his life, and Everitt ventures to solve that puzzle, offering an ending to Alexander's story that has eluded so many for so long"-- The life of Alexander the Great took him to every corner of the ancient world. His memory and glamour persist, and his early death at thirty-three has kept him evergreen in our imaginations. But who was he in his own time? Naturally inquisitive, fascinated by science and exploration, Alexander exhibited respect for traditions as his empire grew-- yet glorified war and was known to commit acts of great cruelty. Did Alexander die of natural causes, or did his marshals, angered by his tyrannical behavior, kill him? Everitt judges Alexander's life against the criteria of his own age and considers all his contradictions. -- adapted from jacket Alexander III. Makedonien, König v356-v323 (DE-588)118501828 gnd rswk-swf Alexander / the Great / 356 B.C.-323 B.C. Greece / History / Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C. Generals / Greece / Biography Greece / Kings and rulers / Biography HISTORY / Ancient / General BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical HISTORY / Military / General Macedonian Expansion (Greece : 359-323 B.C.) Generals Kings and rulers Greece Generals / Biography Greece / History Greece / Biography 359-323 B.C. Biographies Biography History (DE-588)4006804-3 Biografie gnd-content Alexander der Große (338 - 323 v. Chr.) (DE-2581)TH000003608 gbd Hellenismus (323 - 31 v. Chr.) (DE-2581)TH000003631 gbd Alexander III. Makedonien, König v356-v323 (DE-588)118501828 p DE-604 Digitalisierung BSB München - ADAM Catalogue Enrichment application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=031561308&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Register // Gemischte Register |
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