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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... knew the Epic Cycle story about the romantic duel between the hero and Penthesilea ; and the whole Cycle has now been lost . He knew at any rate what Homer says : that Achilles ' mother was a goddess ; that he was de- spoiled and ...
... knew the Epic Cycle story about the romantic duel between the hero and Penthesilea ; and the whole Cycle has now been lost . He knew at any rate what Homer says : that Achilles ' mother was a goddess ; that he was de- spoiled and ...
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... knew the real inten- tion and were determined to acknowledge it , got up and performed the proskynesis of their own accord . As one of them took his turn less gracefully than the rest , a Macedonian guffawed with laughter . It was the ...
... knew the real inten- tion and were determined to acknowledge it , got up and performed the proskynesis of their own accord . As one of them took his turn less gracefully than the rest , a Macedonian guffawed with laughter . It was the ...
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... knew the murderer . The secretary , a prudent man of affairs , protected him- self by instituting elaborate and costly memorial dedi- cations . Alexander , who had known him all his life , must , as he came to himself , have abandoned ...
... knew the murderer . The secretary , a prudent man of affairs , protected him- self by instituting elaborate and costly memorial dedi- cations . Alexander , who had known him all his life , must , as he came to himself , have abandoned ...
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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