A Young Macedonian in the Army of Alexander the Great

Alfred John Church

• Publisher: Books on Demand
• Year: 2019
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9783749485741
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Historical Fiction
• Index: Literature

The "Boys Foot-race" at the great games of Olympia, celebrated now for the one hundred and eleventh time since the epoch of Coroebus, has just been run, and the victor is about to receive his crown of wild olive. The herald proclaims with a loud voice, "Charidemus, son of Callicles of Argos, come forward, and receive your prize!" A lad, who might have been thought to number seventeen or eighteen summers, so tall and well grown was he, but who had really only just completed his fifteenth year, stepped forward. His face was less regularly handsome than those of the very finest Greek type, for the nose was more arched, the chin more strongly marked, and the forehead more square, than a sculptor would have made them in moulding a boy Apollo; still the young Charidemus had a singularly winning appearance, especially now that a smile shone out of his frank blue eyes and parted lips, lips that were neither so full as to be sensual, nor so thin as to be cruel. The dark chestnut curls fell clustering about his neck, for the Greek boy was not cropped in the terrier fashion of his English successor, and the ruddy brown of his clear complexion showed a health nurtured by clean living and exercise. A hum of applause greeted the young athlete, for he had many friends among the young and old of Argos, and he was remarkable for the worth that-"appears with brighter shineWhen lodged within a worthy shrine"-a charm which commends itself greatly to the multitude.

Table of contents

• A Young Macedonian in the Army of Alexander the Great
• CHAPTER I A WRONG
• CHAPTER II A REVENGE
• CHAPTER III PREPARATION
• CHAPTER IV AT TROY
• CHAPTER V AT THE GRANĪCUS
• CHAPTER VI HALICARNASSUS
• CHAPTER VII MEMNON
• CHAPTER VIII AT SEA
• CHAPTER IX IN GREECE AGAIN
• CHAPTER X AT ATHENS
• CHAPTER XI A PERILOUS VOYAGE
• CHAPTER XII ON THE WRONG SIDE
• CHAPTER XIII DAMASCUS
• CHAPTER XIV MANASSEH THE JEW
• CHAPTER XV ANDROMACHÉ
• CHAPTER XVI TO JERUSALEM
• CHAPTER XVII TYRE
• CHAPTER XVIII THE ESCAPE
• CHAPTER XIX THE HIGH PRIEST
• CHAPTER XX FROM TYRE TO THE TIGRIS
• CHAPTER XXI ARBELA
• CHAPTER XXII AT BABYLON
• CHAPTER XXIII A GLIMPSE INTO THE FUTURE
• CHAPTER XXIV VENGEANCE
• CHAPTER XXV DARIUS
• CHAPTER XXVI INVALIDED
• CHAPTER XXVII NEWS FROM THE EAST
• CHAPTER XXVIII THE END
• FOOTNOTES
• Copyright