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NEARCHUS , one of the See also:officers in the See also:army of See also:Alexander the j See also:Great. A native of See also:Crete, he settled at See also:Amphipolis in See also:Macedonia. In 325, when Alexander descended the See also:Indus to the See also:sea, he ordered Nearchus to conduct the See also:fleet to the See also:head of the See also:Persian Gulf. The success with which Nearchus accomplished this arduous enterprise led to his selection by Alexander for the more difficult task of circumnavigating See also:Arabia from the mouth of the See also:Euphrates to the See also:Isthmus of See also:Suez. But this project was cut See also:short by the illness and See also:death of the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king (323). In the troubles that followed Nearchus attached himself to Antigonus, under whom he held the See also:government of his .old provinces of See also:Lycia and See also:Pamphylia, and probably therefore shared in the downfall (3o1) of that monarch.
He wrote a detailed narrative of his expedition, of which a full abstract was embodied by See also:Arrian in his Indica—one of the most interesting See also:geographical See also:treatises of antiquity.
The See also:text, with copious geographical notes, is published in C. See also:- MULLER, FERDINAND VON, BARON (1825–1896)
- MULLER, FRIEDRICH (1749-1825)
- MULLER, GEORGE (1805-1898)
- MULLER, JOHANNES PETER (18o1-1858)
- MULLER, JOHANNES VON (1752-1809)
- MULLER, JULIUS (18oi-1878)
- MULLER, KARL OTFRIED (1797-1840)
- MULLER, LUCIAN (1836-1898)
- MULLER, WILHELM (1794-1827)
- MULLER, WILLIAM JAMES (1812-1845)
Muller's Geographi Graeci Minores, i. (1856) ; on the See also:topography see W. Tomaschek, " Topographische Erlauterung der Kustenfahrt Nearchs Nom Indus bis zum Euphrat" in Sitzungsberichte der K. K. Acad. der Wissenschaften, exxi. (See also:Vienna, 189o). See also E. H. See also:Banbury, See also:Ancient See also:Geography, i. ch. 13; and ALEXANDER THE GREAT. Ancient authorities.—Arrian, Anab. vi. 19, 21; vii. 4, 19, 20, 25; See also:Plutarch, Alexander, to, 68, 75; See also:Strabo xv. pp. 72I, 725; Diod. Sic. xvii. 104 ; See also:Justin xiii. 4.
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