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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... India . It had every lure to which his nature responded . Darius the Great had failed to hold on to his Punjab ... Indian subcontinent , and supposed that from its eastern shore it would be no great voyage to the Euphrates . Having ...
... India . It had every lure to which his nature responded . Darius the Great had failed to hold on to his Punjab ... Indian subcontinent , and supposed that from its eastern shore it would be no great voyage to the Euphrates . Having ...
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... Indian god , hailing Dionysus in ivy crowns . Meantime , the experienced Hephaestion had run a pon- toon bridge ... India , from which it seems that the Macedonians made contact chiefly , per- haps only , with the Aryan conquerors from ...
... Indian god , hailing Dionysus in ivy crowns . Meantime , the experienced Hephaestion had run a pon- toon bridge ... India , from which it seems that the Macedonians made contact chiefly , per- haps only , with the Aryan conquerors from ...
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... Indian marvels ; the banyans which made a wood of a single tree , the sagacious elephants , the tiger skins and pearls and sapphires and rubies , the brilliant dyes of clothes , moustaches , beards and monkeys ' behinds ; the fishponds ...
... Indian marvels ; the banyans which made a wood of a single tree , the sagacious elephants , the tiger skins and pearls and sapphires and rubies , the brilliant dyes of clothes , moustaches , beards and monkeys ' behinds ; the fishponds ...
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