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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... force in permanent training ; but the Spartan mind was inflexible , and the dinosaur was at the point of death ... force of native loyalties and racial pride . As a matter of course , lords still officered their own tribesmen ; it would ...
... force in permanent training ; but the Spartan mind was inflexible , and the dinosaur was at the point of death ... force of native loyalties and racial pride . As a matter of course , lords still officered their own tribesmen ; it would ...
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... force of gravity . Throwing the phalanx into open order , he told those who could not avoid a cart to crouch under a roof of shields ( thus anticipating the Roman " tortoise " ) . The carts bounced over ; not a man was lost , the pass ...
... force of gravity . Throwing the phalanx into open order , he told those who could not avoid a cart to crouch under a roof of shields ( thus anticipating the Roman " tortoise " ) . The carts bounced over ; not a man was lost , the pass ...
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... force it . Its holding force fled as soon as they heard he was there in person . At Tarsus , he nearly killed himself by jumping into the Cydnus ( the stream that carried Cleopatra's barge to Antony ) while tired , hot and sweating . It ...
... force it . Its holding force fled as soon as they heard he was there in person . At Tarsus , he nearly killed himself by jumping into the Cydnus ( the stream that carried Cleopatra's barge to Antony ) while tired , hot and sweating . It ...
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