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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... asked how he could be so calm , he said he had had far more to worry about when the Per- sians were burning the crops ahead of him . Now , he had been given his heart's desire . It was a bad day for history when Quintus Curtius en ...
... asked how he could be so calm , he said he had had far more to worry about when the Per- sians were burning the crops ahead of him . Now , he had been given his heart's desire . It was a bad day for history when Quintus Curtius en ...
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Mary Renault. which so impressed him that he wrote back to Babylon , asking what the omens might be for Alexander . In due ... asked for treaties of friendship with him ; they brought him their disputes to settle , as if he were an oracle ...
Mary Renault. which so impressed him that he wrote back to Babylon , asking what the omens might be for Alexander . In due ... asked for treaties of friendship with him ; they brought him their disputes to settle , as if he were an oracle ...
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... asked him to dinner , and he went . It is this second party which brings in question his psy- chological state . Here is a man with a religious respect for omens . He has had several bad ones , warning him of the gravest danger . He has ...
... asked him to dinner , and he went . It is this second party which brings in question his psy- chological state . Here is a man with a religious respect for omens . He has had several bad ones , warning him of the gravest danger . He has ...
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