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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... Athens . But only with ef- fort does justice to Demosthenes survive a reading of his orations , well polished and published by himself . They were admired in eighteenth - century England when politi- cal scurrility was not impeded by ...
... Athens . But only with ef- fort does justice to Demosthenes survive a reading of his orations , well polished and published by himself . They were admired in eighteenth - century England when politi- cal scurrility was not impeded by ...
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... Athens was in a panic . A beacon was built from the stalls and sheep pens of the marketplace to alert the sub- urbs ... Athens , and promised in return for alliance a fair share of victory gains . If the Thebans wished to be neutral ...
... Athens was in a panic . A beacon was built from the stalls and sheep pens of the marketplace to alert the sub- urbs ... Athens , and promised in return for alliance a fair share of victory gains . If the Thebans wished to be neutral ...
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... Athenians were celebrating the Eleusinian Mysteries , the most solemn rite of the Attic year , when the first Theban fugitives galloped up with the news . For the third time panic reigned in Athens . The Mysteries were abandoned ...
... Athenians were celebrating the Eleusinian Mysteries , the most solemn rite of the Attic year , when the first Theban fugitives galloped up with the news . For the third time panic reigned in Athens . The Mysteries were abandoned ...
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Achilles Alex Alexander Alexander's ancient ander Antipater Aristobulus Aristotle army Arrian Arrian says Artabazus Asia asked Athenian Athens Attalus Babylon Bactria Bagoas battle began Bessus bride Callisthenes campaign Cassander cavalry chariot Cleitus command court Craterus Curtius Cyrus danger Darius dead death Demosthenes Diodorus divine donians doubt Ecbatana Egypt elephants enemy envoys eunuch exile father fight fled fleet force friends garrison gold Greece Greek Harpalus Hephaestion Hephaestion's honour horses Illyrians Indian infantry killed King knew known land later legend lived Mace Macedon Macedonian mercenaries murder Nabarzanes Nearchus never night numbers Ochus offered officers Olympias once palace Parmenion passed Pausanias Perdiccas perhaps Persepolis Persian Peucestas Philip Philotas Plutarch Plutarch says Porus pride probably Ptolemy river route Roxane royal satrap seems sent ships siege Sisygambis Sogdiana soldiers story survived Susa talents Thebans Thebes thought tion told took troops walls wound