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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Page 66
... enemy Attalus to high military rank and the status of royal father- in - law ; favours which may well have seemed like rewards for the injury on which Pausanias had brooded for long obsessive years . He may even have been told so . That ...
... enemy Attalus to high military rank and the status of royal father- in - law ; favours which may well have seemed like rewards for the injury on which Pausanias had brooded for long obsessive years . He may even have been told so . That ...
Page 113
... enemy near , Alex- ander lingered behind so long , to hearten and help the lagging tired old man , that before he knew it he was left in the rear a long way from his soldiers , with a small company , on a bitter night in the dark , and ...
... enemy near , Alex- ander lingered behind so long , to hearten and help the lagging tired old man , that before he knew it he was left in the rear a long way from his soldiers , with a small company , on a bitter night in the dark , and ...
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... enemy of Porus who , hearing of the rajah's reinstatement , had declared war on both of them . His territory was reduced and handed as a gift to Porus ; later in the campaign he was released to take it over . With him was sent ...
... enemy of Porus who , hearing of the rajah's reinstatement , had declared war on both of them . His territory was reduced and handed as a gift to Porus ; later in the campaign he was released to take it over . With him was sent ...
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