How To Use Alexander the great In A Sentence
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Afghans say the mound where the Americans have made a base was once used by Alexander the Great, who defeated the local tribes of Afghanistan in the 4th century B.C. Since their arrival in April, the members of the 10th Mountain Division, 3rd Brigade, 25th Artillery, have been working to win over the local population rather than subjugate it.
Making inroads in Afghanistan
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Other historical mysteries re-examined at the Maryland conference include Alexander the Great, who amassed a sprawling empire by age 30, but died in 323 B.C. at age 32.
Solving Darwin's Medical Mystery
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The defeat of the Persian king Darius III by Alexander the Great in the Battle of Gaugamela in 331 B.C. was foretold by soothsayers when the moon turned blood-red a few days earlier.
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The Tajikistan were part of the ancient Persian Empire that was ruled by Darius I and later conquered by Alexander the Great (333 B.C.).
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In 334 BC, Alexander the Great invaded the Persian Empire.
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In the battle of the Granicus in 334 BC, the first of three major battles fought between Alexander the Great and the Persian Empire, Alexander came close to dying in combat.
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B. C. Alexander the Great, a student of Greek teacher Aristotle, proclaims himself commander in chief of all Greece and spreads Greek culture to the many lands he conquers, At the time of his death.
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Then yesterday in the mid afternoon text messages began flying around the town that the Alexander The Great star was perched on a bar stool in the Purty Kitchen Pub with some friends.
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There are yet to be perceiued of the ruine of those wals, which do now extend, into the sea about halfe a mile: also from the castle Westward into the land, they did perceiue the ruines of a stone wall to extend, which wal, as it is reported, did passe from thence to Pontus Euxinus, and was built by Alexander the great when the Castle Derbent was made.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Herat was visible from here, spread below her like a child's board game: the Women's Garden to the north of the city, Char-suq Bazaar and the ruins of Alexander the Great's old citadel to the south.
A Thousand Splendid Suns
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Many of us have learned the legend of Alexander the Great and the Gordian Knot.
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Afghanistan has more substance than "X amount of people killed again in Blank-abad Province," and a cliched reference to Alexander the Great and the Soviet invasion.
Seema Jilani: Weaving Our Stories Into the Carpets of Afghanistan
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I was searching this history website for something about Alexander the Great.
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Alexander the Great ruled over a huge empire.
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It had once been an island city, but Alexander the Great had conquered it by building an isthmus from the mainland out to the island.
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Kings quickly rose and fell, sometimes several in a single year, until at last Amyntas III, grandfather of Alexander the Great, clawed his way to the top and seized the throne in 393.
Alexander the Great
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I was searching this history website for something about Alexander the Great.
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Interested in Greek as well as Ottoman and Persian culture, he was eager to present himself to posterity as the new Alexander the Great.
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I was searching this history website for something about Alexander the Great.
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Alexander the Great held dominion over a vast area.
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Philonides, the courier and surveyor for Alexander the Great, once ran from Sicyon to Elis—148 miles—in a day.
The Tyranny of E-mail
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Stone has often represented himself as some kind of socialist, but his fascination with Castro and other Latin American leaders is little different from his love for Alexander the Great, the owners of National Football League clubs or Wall Street bullies.
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps – review
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Ihtilájnámeh" = Book of palpitations, prognosticating from the subsultus tendinum and other involuntary movements of the body from head to foot; according to Ja'afar the Just, Daniel the Prophet, Alexander the Great; the Sages of Persia and the
Arabian nights. English
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Alexander the Great, turned on one side, with an expression of languishment and anxiety in his countenance.
Travels through France and Italy
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Come to think of it, that would be quite a match up; the iceman is a monster, but do you think he could take out alexander the great's most decorated warrior in full battle regalia (i.e. javelin, armor, sword)?
Vegas Pop Blog
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“Ihtilájnámeh” = Book of palpitations, prognosticating from the subsultus tendinum and other involuntary movements of the body from head to foot; according to Ja’afar the Just, Daniel the Prophet, Alexander the Great; the Sages of Persia and the Wise
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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This is a fascinating might-have-been, a six episode script for the first season of Doctor Who telling the story of a murder conspiracy against Alexander the Great, by Moris Farhi.
More on Catherine Ashton
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I was searching this history website for something about Alexander the Great.
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Alexander the Great beat every opponent between Greece and India.
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He accompanied Alexander the Great on his conquest of northern India, where he encountered Indian gymnosophists or naked wise men.
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A pond near an amphitheater from Alexander the Great's time had a black-crowned night heron, a few little egrets, pied kingfishers and black-winged stilts.
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Hellenization Alexander the Great's father was Philip II, King of Macedonia, King of Macedon, and he conquered different Greek city-states by defeating Athens and its allies at Chaeronea in 338 BC.
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The beginning of the Hellenistic age is defined as the rise to power of Alexander the Great.
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Therefore, both dry and hungry souls, pot and trenchermen, fully enjoying those books, perusing, quoting them in their merry conventicles, and observing the great mysteries of which they treat, shall gain a singular profit and fame; as in the like case was done by Alexander the Great with the books of prime philosophy composed by Aristotle.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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His own tomb was abuilding, as was fit and proper; his mother had put it next to Alexander the Great, but he had relocated it in a small, unobtrusive corner.
Antony and Cleopatra
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Such was Penthesilea, who, if we may credit ancient story, led her army of viragoes to the assistance of Priam, king of Troy; Thomyris, who encountered Cyrus, king of Persia; and Thalestris, famous for her fighting, as well as for her amours with Alexander the Great.
Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World
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But the good general Sandhu is the only authority I've ever read to imply that Alexander the Great didn't win the Battle of the Hydaspes aka Jhelum against the Paurava king we know as "Porus.
Kenneth Hite's Journal
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Rattigan's great professional regret was the failure of his 1949 play based on Alexander the Great, Adventure Story.
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In the 4th century, Alexander the Great conquered nearly all of the Near East and Palestine was annexed to Egypt and fell under Greek control.
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Koine is a dialect of ancient Greek that was the lingua franca of the empire of Alexander the Great and was widely spoken throughout the eastern Mediterranean area in Roman times
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One day I learned in school about an alexandrine--and even today I still remember that an alexandrine was a type of poem some oldtimer wrote honoring Alexander the Great--and how an alexandrine fit a certain pattern based on syllabic time counted by iambs and I'll be damned if I learned where the caesuras go.
Poetic Justice
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[581]; forming a new legion out of his late levies in Italy, of men all six feet high, which he called the phalanx of Alexander the Great.
De vita Caesarum
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Alexander the Great and his generals introduced the practice to the Phoenicians, Egyptians and Carthaginians.
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He made preparations for an expedition to the Pass of the Caspian mountains, forming a new legion out of his late levies in Italy, of men all six feet high, which he called the phalanx of Alexander the Great.
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome
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The Kalash, or "Wearers of the Black Robe," are a Dardic people whose ancestry is enveloped in mystery: a legend says that five soldiers of the legions of Alexander the Great settled in Chitral, and are the progenitors of the Kalash.
The Kalash Tribe Of Pakistan (PHOTOS)
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And, which is more, he would now and then make Alexander the Great mad, so enormously would he abuse him when he had not well patched his breeches; for he used to pay his skin with sound bastinadoes.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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Alexander the Great, enamoured of his Theban captive Campaspe, gives her freedom and engages Apelles to paint her portrait.
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Obviously, the hero needed a noble name and Alexander the Great suggested itself straight away.
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Alexander the Great beat every opponent between Greece and India.
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Yes, zany classicalism was our keynote this time; also snatched up like precious gems was Ralph Ellis' K2: Quest of the Gods y'see, Alexander the Great was looking for the Pyramid Treasure in the Himalayas and Felice Vinci's The Baltic Origins of Homer's Epic Tales, which title strikes me rather as a subtitle in search of a lurid phrase, but has the virtue of clarity.
Kenneth Hite's Journal
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Alexander the Great, enamoured of his Theban captive Campaspe, gives her freedom and engages Apelles to paint her portrait.
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If our recognition of a Greek idiom in Ecclesiastes is valid, it points to a date posterior to the conquest of Alexander the Great.
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Greeks (under Alexander the Great), Persians, Medians, Sassanians, Parthians warred there.
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Pierre Briant's "Alexander the Great and His Empire" may be short, but it is of a wholly different order of seriousness from that of Mr. Freeman: an analysis less of Alexander himself than of his record as a state-builder and in particular of the debt that he owed to his Achaemenid predecessors.
The Greatest of Them All
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Few details are known of the original Colossus of Rhodes, which was built by a local sculptor between 304 and 292BC and whose face was reputedly modelled on that of Alexander the Great.
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Even Alexander the Great had to recompense an Athenian who was robbed on the way to Olympia.
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Its buzz is really created by its connection with Alexander the Great, who traced his lineage back to the god Heracles, and how it slightly rewrites the history of early Greece.
A Classical Education to Treasure
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The Immortal Alexander the Great," at Amsterdam's branch of the Hermitage, will include the Gonzaga Cameo, a reddish sardonyx engraving of Alexander that shows off his fabled good looks, and brightly painted manuscripts from 15th-century Persia like "Iskandar and the Hermit," created to entertain the sultans.
Xanadu, Sacramento and Beyond
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Alexander the Great ruled over a huge empire.
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It was a curious remark to make for one who dreamed of emulating Alexander the Great.
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Alexander the Great's managerial ability is attested to by his successes.
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The reality is that Afghanistan is aland that defeated Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, the British Empire, as well as the aforementioned Soviet Union.
Afghanistan: Stand and Deliver ... or not
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B. C. Alexander the Great, a student of Greek teacher Aristotle, proclaims himself commander in chief of all Greece and spreads Greek culture to the many lands he conquers, At the time of his death.
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Alexander the Great was unsuccessful in his aims to capture the hilltop fortress here, the ruins of which remain to be explored.
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King of Persia (33'-330) who was defeated in several battles by Alexander the Great. His murder by a Bactrian satrap effectively ended the Persian Empire.
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Javan," distinctly related to the Greek ` iwuan, are the Ionians, which name, after Alexander the Great, was applied to all Greeks.
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1
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King Pyrrhus of Epirus was an ambitious ruler whose aim was to revive the empire of his second cousin, Alexander the Great.
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I'm reading a biography of Alexander the Great.
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Founded by Alexander the Great, Alexandria was Egypt's capital until the 7th century.
A Tale of Two Alexandrias
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In nineteen of them the biographies of famous Greeks and Romans such as Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar are compared.
