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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... Bagoas , he must have known ever since the ar- rival of the Queen's eunuch to announce her death that the captive ladies had been allowed to keep their own at- tendants . Besides any loyalty he felt to his master - whose memory he seems ...
... Bagoas , he must have known ever since the ar- rival of the Queen's eunuch to announce her death that the captive ladies had been allowed to keep their own at- tendants . Besides any loyalty he felt to his master - whose memory he seems ...
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... Bagoas , versed in every detail of the royal day and night . Bagoas ' influence is one of history's imponderables . It did not grow less as he passed out of adolescence ; but this , like the talent of Hephaestion , is a thing Ptolemy ...
... Bagoas , versed in every detail of the royal day and night . Bagoas ' influence is one of history's imponderables . It did not grow less as he passed out of adolescence ; but this , like the talent of Hephaestion , is a thing Ptolemy ...
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... Bagoas took some part in Orxines ' trial ; he had known , and could identify , Darius III's palace treasures , some of which may have been among the looted grave goods . The Curtius story is as fol- lows . Orxines , a noble and virtuous ...
... Bagoas took some part in Orxines ' trial ; he had known , and could identify , Darius III's palace treasures , some of which may have been among the looted grave goods . The Curtius story is as fol- lows . Orxines , a noble and virtuous ...
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