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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... dead hand of the Lyceum still wrote on . But among the republicans , in their bitter underground , interest in Alexander was keen and active . Had he not lived , it would have been necessary to invent him . His was an imperial effigy ...
... dead hand of the Lyceum still wrote on . But among the republicans , in their bitter underground , interest in Alexander was keen and active . Had he not lived , it would have been necessary to invent him . His was an imperial effigy ...
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... dead man's kinsman or tribal chief , devised a black farce by way of retribution . He got Pausanias dead drunk at his house , threw . him out in the stable yard and invited the slaves to rape him . Unable to kill Attalus in the midst of ...
... dead man's kinsman or tribal chief , devised a black farce by way of retribution . He got Pausanias dead drunk at his house , threw . him out in the stable yard and invited the slaves to rape him . Unable to kill Attalus in the midst of ...
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... dead ; he himself had protected his body with his shield and killed with his own hand the men who were rushing at him . Which his father had never been man enough to admit , being unwilling to owe his son his life . Unfortunately that ...
... dead ; he himself had protected his body with his shield and killed with his own hand the men who were rushing at him . Which his father had never been man enough to admit , being unwilling to owe his son his life . Unfortunately that ...
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