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33 Cards in this Set
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"For I am writing lives... |
...not history, and the truth is the the most brilliant exploits often tell us nothing of the virtues of vices of the men who performed them." - Plutarch |
...not history, and the truth is... |
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Focuses on military affairs... |
...and is largely sympathetic to Alexander. - GM Rogers |
...and is largely... |
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Filled with... |
...gossip and salacious anecdotes. - GM Rogers. |
...gossip and... |
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There is no definitive... |
...history of Alexander. - JR Hamilton |
...history of... |
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Only when we have understood the viewpoint... |
...of our sources can we assess the value of the information they have provided about Alexander. - GM Rogers. |
...of our sources can we... |
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No other historical figure... |
...has been more written about or more variously judged. - Arrian |
...has been more written about... |
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Decended from Heracles... |
...through Caranus, and on his mother's side from Aeacus through Neoptolemus. - Plutarch. |
...through Caranus, and on his mother's side... |
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Her womb was struck... |
...by a thunderbolt, and there followed a blinding flash from which a great sheet of flame blazed up. - Plutarch |
...by a thunderbolt and there followed... |
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The son who's birth... |
...coincided with three victories would prove himself invincible. - Plutarch. |
...Coincided with... |
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O my son... |
...look the out a kingdom equal to and worthy of thyself, for Macedonia is too little for thee. - Plutarch |
...look thee out a kingdom... |
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But just as Spithridates raised his arm for another blow... |
...'black' Cleitus struck first and ran him through with a spear, and at the same moment Rhosaces was cut down by Alexander's sword. - Plutarch |
...black cleitus struck first and ran him through... |
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I would be ashamed if... |
...after crossing the Hellespont with ease, this little stream is to prevent us from getting across just as we are. -Arrian |
...after crossing the hellespont with ease... |
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The priest greeted him on the God's behalf... |
...as a father greeting his son. - Plutarch. |
...as a father... |
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Fortunate slip of the priest's tongue... |
...served to confirm a belief which had long been growing on him. - RL Fox |
...served to confirm a belief... |
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Alexander admired the site and consulted the god... |
...and having received, as he put it, the answer which his heart desired, he returned to Egypt. - Arrian |
...and having received, as he put it... |
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And it is the blood of these Macedonians and their wounds... |
...which have made you so great that you disown your father, Philip and claim to be the son of Ammon! - Plutarch. |
...which have made you so great that you... |
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In his view the city he was founding... |
...would abound in resources and would sustain men from every nation. - Plutarch |
...would abound in resources and... |
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My decision is to attack in broad daylight... |
...I prefer to live to regret my bad luck than to be ashamed of my victory. - Curtius Rufus |
...I prefer to live to regret... |
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Alexander allowed his Macedonians to sleep, but himself spent the night... |
...in front of his tent in the company of his diviner, Aristander, with whom he performed certain mysterious and sacred ceremonies and offered sacrifice to the god of fear. - Plutarch |
...in front of his tent in the company of his diviner, Aristander, with whom he performed... |
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While the outcome of the fight was still undecided... |
...he conducted himself like a conqueror. - Curtius Rufus |
...he conducted himself... |
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Alexander burnt up the palace at Persepolis to... |
...avenge the Greeks because the Persians had destroyed both temples and cities of the Greeks by fire and sword. - Arrian. |
...avenge the Greeks because the Persians had destroyed both temples and cities... |
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Such was the end... |
...of the palace that had ruled over all the east. - Curtius Rufus. |
...of the palace that had ruled... |
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Alexander, being easily known by his bucklers... |
...and a large plume of white feathers on each side of his helmet, was attacked from all sides, yet escaped wounding. - Arrianp |
...and a large plume of white feathers on each side... |
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Don't you think we have already won a great victory?... |
...as we are freed from chasing through this vast expanse of desolate land after Darius as he flees from battle? - Plutarch |
...as we are freed from chasing through this vast expanse... |
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And to this empire... |
...there will be no boundaries but what got himself has made for the whole world. - Arrian (Alexander) |
...there will be no boundaries... |
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And whoever wishes to return home will be allowed to go... |
...either with me or without me. I will make those who stay the envy of those who return. - Arrian (Alexander) |
...either with me or without me... |
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Sir, if there is... |
...one thing a successful man should know, it is when to stop. -Arrian |
...one thing a successful man should know... |
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Luck, remember, is an unpredictable thing... |
...and against what it may bring no man has any defense. - Arrian (Coenus) |
...and against what it may bring... |
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'Every man of you,' Alexander replied... |
...'I regard as my kinsmen, and from now on that is what I shall call you.' - Arrian (Alexander) |
...'I regard as my kinsmen... |
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The chief objective of his prayers was that... |
...Persians and Macedonians might rule together in harmony as an imperial power. - Arrian |
...Persians and Macedonians might... |
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The dead I call fortunate... |
...they didn't live to see Macedonians flogged by the rods of Medians, and begging Persians for permission to have an audience with their king. - Plutarch (Cleitus) |
...they didn't live to see Macedonians flogged by the rods of Medians... |
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Well I shall go away... |
...one kiss the poorer. - Plutarch (Callisthenes) |
...one kiss... |
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When someone put to Callisthenes the question... |
...'How would one become the most famous man?', he replied, 'If you kill the most famous man.' - Plutarch (Callisthenes) |
...'How would one become the most famous man?'... |
