Robin Lane Fox

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1. The occasion was not lost on Alexander: at Susa, he sacrificed to Greek gods and held Greek gymnastic games...

   p. 253

2. 

   But Alexander was stressing his link with Achilles... Achilles was also a stirring Greek hero, useful for a Macedonian king whose Greek ancestry did not stop Greeks from calling him a barbarian.

   p. 60

3. 

   He was still in a world of Greek gods and sacrifices, of Greek plays and Greek language,though the natives might speak Greek with a northern accent which hardened 'ch' into 'g','th' into 'd' and pronounced King Philip as Bilip.

   p. 30

4. 

   Olympia's royal ancestry traced back to the hero Achilles, and the blood of Helen of Troy was believed to run on her father's side.

   p. 44

5. 

   To his ancestors (to a Persian's ancestors) Macedonians were only known as 'yona takabara', the 'Greeks who wear shields on their heads', an allusion to their broad-brimmed hats.

   p. 104

6. 

   Alexander was recognized as a son of Zeus after his visit.

   p. 201

7. 

   In return he left behind Darius's mother, daughters and the son whom he had captured at Issus, and appointed teachers to teach them the Greek language.

   p. 254

8. 

   When his Macedonians mutinied at the end of their marching, they were said to have ridiculed him and told him to 'go fight alone with his father', meaning Zeus, not Philip.

   p. 216

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