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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... Peucestas on the spot . The barb was tugged out ; the inevitable fresh haemorrhage followed ; blood loss , agony and shock induced nature's anesthetic , and he lost con- sciousness again . When the soldiers , returning from their ...
... Peucestas on the spot . The barb was tugged out ; the inevitable fresh haemorrhage followed ; blood loss , agony and shock induced nature's anesthetic , and he lost con- sciousness again . When the soldiers , returning from their ...
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... Peucestas was training a loyal and disci- plined Persian army ; an army of young Macedonians was due to come out with Antipater . The adventure would start with a march of about three hundred miles from Babylon to the mouth of the ...
... Peucestas was training a loyal and disci- plined Persian army ; an army of young Macedonians was due to come out with Antipater . The adventure would start with a march of about three hundred miles from Babylon to the mouth of the ...
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... Peucestas , 206 , 207 , 208 , 221 , 223 , 230 , 250 , 253 , 264 , 266 Pharnaces , 204-5 Phidias , 94 Philip II , 8 , 10 , 17 , 19-26 , 27 , 29 , 30 , 32 ff . , 44 ff . , 71 , 73 ff . , 79 , 82 , 84 ff . , 88-9 , 97 , 99 , 108 , 109 ...
... Peucestas , 206 , 207 , 208 , 221 , 223 , 230 , 250 , 253 , 264 , 266 Pharnaces , 204-5 Phidias , 94 Philip II , 8 , 10 , 17 , 19-26 , 27 , 29 , 30 , 32 ff . , 44 ff . , 71 , 73 ff . , 79 , 82 , 84 ff . , 88-9 , 97 , 99 , 108 , 109 ...
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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