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A Note on Alexander's Death

Donald Engels

Classical Philology. (Jul., 1978) pp. 224-228

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[518 words] disease, medical, plague, medicine, doctor, physician, patient, diseases, symptoms, health, celsus, cure, doctors, illness, epidemic, thucydides, cause, fever, body, treatment, asclepius, sick, healing, patients, physicians, smallpox, regimen, drugs, typhus, hippocratic

[176 words] alexander, arrian, macedonian, philip, king, curtius, diodorus, diod, tarn, ptolemy, macedonians, antigonus, plutarch, macedonia, alexander_the_great, demetrius, curt, royal, plut, olympias, antipater, alex, persian, eumenes, justin, sources, darius, perdiccas, bosworth, hammond

[49 words] army, city, military, took, troops, himself, control, power, events, position, situation, policy, force, sent, return, revolt, attack, victory, peace, forces, defeat, action, soon, attempt, success, battle, enemy, became, command, remained

[43 words] road, river, along, route, miles, valley, plain, hill, town, distance, land, mountain, across, coast, village, city, mountains, hills, roads, pass, line, region, bridge, island, southern, water, lake, lies, ground, places

[40 words] period, early, development, influence, forms, developed, earliest, tradition, stage, beginning, became, become, changes, periods, characteristic, process, result, tendency, greater, true, sixth, introduced, throughout, marked, fourth, stages, longer, began, fifth_century, simple

[36 words] average, size, numbers, population, high, proportion, data, length, ratio, higher, units, frequency, rate, range, increase, groups, percentage, relative, estimate, amount, lower, statistics, value, significant, approximately, sample, distribution, mean, greater, unit

[36 words] context, simply, position, hypothesis, argued, text, makes, claim, explain, suggestion, correct, grounds, reasons, alternative, actually, argue, moreover, attempt, surely, obvious, accept, argues, unlikely, enough, issue, sense, passage, presumably, difficulties, plausible

[26 words] days, month, calendar, months, winter, festival, period, prytany, summer, august, september, chronology, spring, beginning, early, february, began, autumn, meritt, cycle, calendars, november, intercalary, reckoning, pritchett, festivals, ordinary, athenian, count, prytanies

[25 words] phrygian, sardis, tomb, hittite, gordion, anatolian, schliemann, anatolia, ankara, lydian, troy, calvert, mound, tumulus, symposium, istanbul, tombs, anatst, turkey, hellenistic, citadel, pottery, urartian, finds, levels, temple, early, belleten, akurgal, architectural

[17 words] himself, young, ever, whom, every, your, days, things, mind, wrote, spirit, enough, something, true, famous, friend, words, youth, country, poet, knew, high, become, love, take, poor, name, story, master, living

[17 words] greeks, greece, peoples, cities, early, land, strabo, egypt, asia_minor, name, island, city, eastern, region, italy, islands, country, native, inhabitants, geographical, western, tribes, coast, tradition, northern, mediterranean, asia, civilization, romans, population

[13 words] comments, suggestions, helpful, anonymous, help, version, advice, draft, assistance, valuable, referee, express, gratitude, referees, encouragement, professors, provided, reading, criticism, seminar, criticisms, generous, humanities, drafts, grant, colleagues, acknowledge, classics, delivered, errors

[12 words] text, translation, edition, volume, introduction, books, pages, commentary, illustrations, translations, works, index, volumes, useful, page, maps, texts, english, chapter, editions, latin, reader, translated, contains, authors, chapters, excellent, review, scholarship, full

[11 words] france, bibliotheque, collection, lettres, ecole, siecle, gaule, jean, manuscrits, societe, nationale, acad, henri, grece, tome, grecs, insc, recueil, antiques, bagaudes, cernunnos, bordeaux, monnaies, travaux, saint, pierre, paul, ville, picard, lantier

[10 words] galen, body, blood, medical, heart, medicine, bones, hippocrates, semen, bone, brain, skull, treatise, asclepiades, aristotle, hippocratic, liver, pneuma, physis, teeth, skeletal, organ, bile, individuals, odour, dynamis, physiognomy, heat, treatises, physiological

[8 words] eyes, thou, your, night, earth, away, heart, thee, blood, forth, love, simile, sleep, beauty, tears, mind, poet, lines, heaven, hands, comes, words, gods, song, water, face, sound, passage, dark, sweet

[7 words] neolithic, greece, data, obsidian, artifacts, prehistoric, lerna, analysis, blades, samples, regional, southern, radiocarbon, bronze_age, landscape, franchthi, tools, production, valley, blade, argolid, cave, runnels, faunal, ceramic, region, deposits, materials, flakes, cores

[7 words] seals, seal, babylonian, assyrian, sumerian, iran, tell, mesopotamia, tablets, cylinder, period, king, babylonia, palace, impressions, mesopotamian, uruk, texts, sealings, iraq, leilan, frankfort, assyria, akkadian, clay, sealing, early, syrian, babylon, mari

[6 words] atti, nella, florence, naples, nell, degli, sulla, italia, romano, alla, turin, archeologia, greca, istituto, napoli, onore, ricerche, pisa, bologna, antichita, italian, antico, classica, bari, mondo, sull, cultura, argues, secolo, greco

[6 words] wine, food, drinking, drink, banquet, meal, feast, meat, water, dinner, guests, bread, eating, milk, feasting, fish, dining, honey, athenaeus, feasts, cooking, served, consumption, symposium, foods, cook, host, choes, diet, couch

[6 words] collection, information, athens, done, knowledge, received, collections, objects, carried, completed, valuable, investigation, progress, devoted, country, task, service, hope, greece, visit, sent, every, volume, gave, soon, museums, value, german, full, future

[6 words] true, passage, words, merely, matter, position, suppose, regard, name, enough, natural, mention, difficulty, period, prove, having, regarded, himself, except, facts, really, naturally, supposed, definite, makes, assumed, alone, correct, actually, referred

[5 words] source, text, sources, passage, information, works, passages, written, version, fragments, name, authors, quoted, tradition, literary, mention, fragment, extant, books, himself, wrote, early, writers, title, commentary, quotations, texts, derived, knowledge, collection