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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... Alex- ander , and the shadowy boy Alexander IV , died like some great rock releasing landslides . His son Cassander , Alex- ander's bitterest enemy , future murderer of his mother , widow and son , settled down to the serious work of ...
... Alex- ander , and the shadowy boy Alexander IV , died like some great rock releasing landslides . His son Cassander , Alex- ander's bitterest enemy , future murderer of his mother , widow and son , settled down to the serious work of ...
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... Alex- ander even gave the robbers a reward . The royal squires , among whose services to the King was that of bringing him his spare horses in battle , were the teen - aged sons of Macedonian aristocrats . In earlier troubled reigns ...
... Alex- ander even gave the robbers a reward . The royal squires , among whose services to the King was that of bringing him his spare horses in battle , were the teen - aged sons of Macedonian aristocrats . In earlier troubled reigns ...
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... Alex- ander , furious for his false hopes , had the man kept under arrest . At last Nearchus and a few friends , getting along as best they could , were passed by some of the scouts sent out to look for them , who had taken them for ...
... Alex- ander , furious for his false hopes , had the man kept under arrest . At last Nearchus and a few friends , getting along as best they could , were passed by some of the scouts sent out to look for them , who had taken them for ...
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