The story of Alexander (1894)

Author: Steele, Robert, 1860-1944
Subject: Alexander, the Great, 356-323 B.C; Macedonia -- History, Ancient
Publisher: London, D. Nutt
Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Language: English

 CHAPTER I. HOW ANECTANABUS WAS
KING OF EGYPT, AND WHY HE FLED
INTO THE LAND OF MACEDON.
|NCE UPON A TIME a king reigned
over the land of Egypt, whose name was
Anectanabus. In his time that land was
the richest in the world, and its people
were wise and happy ; but Anectanabus
was the wisest and the noblest of them, and under
his rule all men, both great and small, prospered.
The field-workers ploughed and reaped, the merchants
travelled and chaffered, the wise men studied
and wrote and taught, and the great lords watched
over the land, helped the poor, and guarded all men.
Shortly to say, the land of Egypt was in those days
the home of plenty and of peace, of mirth and of game.
Now Anectanabus was, above all men, skilled in
the arts of magic, for he had learned the secrets of
Egypt that were not written down in books, but cut......Read more