The Nature of AlexanderKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 12 nov. 1979 - 288 pages The acclaimed biography of Alexander the Great by Mary Renault, the author of Fire from Heaven and The Persian Boy, two best-selling novels about Alexander. |
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... Philotas ' usual style - merely telling her to warn him of anything serious . She returned to Philotas , in whom she did not confide . His younger brother , Hector , to whom . Alexander had been much attached , had lately lost his life ...
... Philotas ' usual style - merely telling her to warn him of anything serious . She returned to Philotas , in whom she did not confide . His younger brother , Hector , to whom . Alexander had been much attached , had lately lost his life ...
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... Philotas . Alexander had taken no steps about the earlier warn- ings . He assessed the loyalty of his friends by his own to them . ( One cause of this optimism had no doubt been the bedrock constancy of Hephaestion , a certainty since ...
... Philotas . Alexander had taken no steps about the earlier warn- ings . He assessed the loyalty of his friends by his own to them . ( One cause of this optimism had no doubt been the bedrock constancy of Hephaestion , a certainty since ...
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... Philotas incriminated his father . One of the conspirators may have done so , truly or falsely . It would seem that Alexander , rather than accept such testimony unsupported , took a last chance by working into the forged letter some ...
... Philotas incriminated his father . One of the conspirators may have done so , truly or falsely . It would seem that Alexander , rather than accept such testimony unsupported , took a last chance by working into the forged letter some ...
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