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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... honour . De- spite his childhood traumas , we hear nothing about fits of rage . Had his love of winning made him an unpleasant loser , he would not have been supported in disgrace and exile by his boyhood friends . Yet the enormous ...
... honour . De- spite his childhood traumas , we hear nothing about fits of rage . Had his love of winning made him an unpleasant loser , he would not have been supported in disgrace and exile by his boyhood friends . Yet the enormous ...
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... honour , implying that He- phaestion himself was worthy of the office , if he could have been spared ; but Alexander was realistic about such missions , and this called for both integrity and skill . Hephaestion was at once surrounded ...
... honour , implying that He- phaestion himself was worthy of the office , if he could have been spared ; but Alexander was realistic about such missions , and this called for both integrity and skill . Hephaestion was at once surrounded ...
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... honour . She arrived with Drypetis her sister , Hephaes- tion's widow . Roxane had both of them killed , and their bodies thrown in a well . It was precisely what Olympias would have done in her position ; when the two queens met , they ...
... honour . She arrived with Drypetis her sister , Hephaes- tion's widow . Roxane had both of them killed , and their bodies thrown in a well . It was precisely what Olympias would have done in her position ; when the two queens met , they ...
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