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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... hand , Athens was the university where they sent their sons to pick up the intellectual polish of the conquered ; and there the dead hand of the Lyceum still wrote on . But among the republicans , in their bitter underground , interest ...
... hand , Athens was the university where they sent their sons to pick up the intellectual polish of the conquered ; and there the dead hand of the Lyceum still wrote on . But among the republicans , in their bitter underground , interest ...
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... hand - punched money poured out of them , wearing out the moulds whose many variants can still be seen . Olympian Zeus soon has around him on the obverse the symbols of the lion , and the royal kyrbasia or peaked cap , circled with the ...
... hand - punched money poured out of them , wearing out the moulds whose many variants can still be seen . Olympian Zeus soon has around him on the obverse the symbols of the lion , and the royal kyrbasia or peaked cap , circled with the ...
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... hand - to - hand combat by Erigyius , one of the boyhood friends exiled by Philip for their devotion . Alex- ander , resolved to settle with Bessus for good , and get north into Bactriana before he was expected , early in the year led ...
... hand - to - hand combat by Erigyius , one of the boyhood friends exiled by Philip for their devotion . Alex- ander , resolved to settle with Bessus for good , and get north into Bactriana before he was expected , early in the year led ...
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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