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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... Nearchus ' memoir lingered . They were seen off in state by Porus ; on whom Alexander had bestowed no mere satrapy , but a tributary kingship over all the conquests between Taxila and the Beas . There were 80 warships , but the whole ...
... Nearchus ' memoir lingered . They were seen off in state by Porus ; on whom Alexander had bestowed no mere satrapy , but a tributary kingship over all the conquests between Taxila and the Beas . There were 80 warships , but the whole ...
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... Nearchus had twelve healthy years ahead of him . Arrian writes that of all his sources , only Nearchus said that the full difficulties of the route were not known to Alexander . But Nearchus would have known best : Alex- ander's co ...
... Nearchus had twelve healthy years ahead of him . Arrian writes that of all his sources , only Nearchus said that the full difficulties of the route were not known to Alexander . But Nearchus would have known best : Alex- ander's co ...
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... 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 ragged va- grants . They made themselves known and were conveyed to Alexander , who ...
... 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 ragged va- grants . They made themselves known and were conveyed to Alexander , who ...
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