Son of the Star, born of the Mountain Alexander the Great

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Сергей Соловьев. Son of the Star, born of the Mountain Alexander the Great

Prologue

Temple of fate

Initiation Nearh

Departure

At the court of Alexander

Trekking in Thrace

War

Landing

Landing

Granik

Ephesus Massacre

Halicarnassus

Kidn

Issa

Egypt

Labyrinth

Gavgamely

Bactria and Sogdiana

At the Scythians

India and the path of Dionysus

Way to Babylon

Two weddings and death are near

Return to Babylon

Babylon is the last day

The missing

Phenomenon

Epilogue

The life and accomplishments of Alexander the Great

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Kuret was standing on the prow of the ship, and the vessel’s thorn cut the waves that hit the side of the ship, and the pitching is not so strong here. The Cretan looked at the high banks that followed his gaze, looked at the sky, it was more transparent, and now with almost no clouds, although there were a storm here, though not dangerous. Again he was in the north, Nearh sailed on a thirty-ship boat along the great river Ra, to the temple of Latona and her children, Apollo-Ulla and Elisia. Health began to fail, he felt that something was wrong with him, his heart ached. Kuret walked by ship from the harbor on the Hyrcan Sea, repeating the path of Darius and Cyrus, but hoped that he would end more and more happily. His wife recently died, his sons grew up and returned to Crete, to his grandfather, and he was no longer holding anything at home. On the river, warriors and ambassadors’ servants often fished, and the accompanying, from local tribes, first Scythians, and then Sarmatians, showed them the way, and pointed out where they could safely stick. At night, when the sky was free of clouds, he measured the height above the horizon of the Polar Star with an astrolabe, recognizing the breadth of the terrain. Kormschik watched the actions of an elderly Cretan man with increasing attention, and once approached him.

– Do not show what you measure and what device? – asked his Scythian.

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“And why, Linkey,” everybody exclaimed.

“I will sing an ode to the sturgeon,” adhering from the bed and supported by Laida, who, because of her zeal to keep the co-worker, the chiton fell from the right shoulder revealing a pretty girl figure, but after several cups of excellent wine the poet still tried to read:

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