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Harold Lamb. Alexander of Macedon
Alexander of Macedon
Table of Contents
ITHE PASSAGE OF THE CHARIOT. OF THE SUN
IITHE RIDDLE OF THE EARTH’S SHAPE
IIIDEMOSTHENES AND THE GRAVES. OF CHAERONEA
IVTHE MOUNTAINS AND THEBES
VTHE ROAD TO TROY
VIBRIDGEHEAD
VII THE FIRST SUMMER, AND. THE WINTER
VIIIISSUS
IXTHE WOMAN OF DAMASCUS
XGATES OF THE SEA
XITHE TURNING TO THE EAST
XIILADY OF THE BEASTS
XIIIPERSEPOLIS
XIVTHE WINGS, THE SUN, AND. THE EMPIRE
XVTHE BLIGHT OF LUXURY
XVIRIVER OF THE SEA AND RIVER. OF THE SANDS
XVIIROXANA
XVIIITHE ELEPHANTS AND THE. LAST RIVER
XIXRETURN TO THE WEST
XXCORROSION OF WEALTH
XXITHE END OF THE ARMY
XXIITHE WATERS OF BABYLON
AFTERWORD
Footnote
INDEX
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Harold Lamb
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Alexander knew well the ignoble part his people had played in great events. Macedonian foresters had hewn the timber that, floated down to the sea, had built Athenian warships. Macedonian horse breeders had supplied the Greek cities with animals. Their farms had produced the barley, grapes, and meat requisitioned—and paid for—by the invading armies of the Great Kings, Darius and Xerxes. The highly educated Greeks had a right to call the Macedonians barbarians and peasants.
Until his father’s time the only wars fought by Macedonians had been to beat off inroads of the forest folk from along the Danube or raids of the equally wild Scythian horsemen. Not until Philip possessed himself of the gold and silver mines around Mount Pangaeus had the Macedonian kings had a currency of their own. Until then they had used the fine silver coinage of Athens. Now the Pangaeus mines brought in a thousand talents a year; but this did not satisfy Olympias. “So we have become miners as well! Again we draw wealth out of the holy soil, and what wealth? It would not have hired General Xenophon’s division of ten thousand Greek mercenaries—not that your father will consent to hire mercenaries, even when the Pharaohs of Egypt pay for a guard of Spartans.”
