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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... numbers , merely closed their harbour with a boom of ships , as he had done himself at Miletus . He could not tempt them out . His operations were now enormous , using engineers from Cyprus and the whole Phoenician littoral , besides ...
... numbers , merely closed their harbour with a boom of ships , as he had done himself at Miletus . He could not tempt them out . His operations were now enormous , using engineers from Cyprus and the whole Phoenician littoral , besides ...
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... numbers , he had ingeniously contrived that his apex of strength should meet an area of Persian weakness just where he wanted it to be . It was time to change horses . A squire had been hold- ing ready the veteran Bucephalas , now ...
... numbers , he had ingeniously contrived that his apex of strength should meet an area of Persian weakness just where he wanted it to be . It was time to change horses . A squire had been hold- ing ready the veteran Bucephalas , now ...
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... numbers , they de- cided not to cross it . Once aware of their disaffection , Alexander took it seriously . He knew their discomforts and sympathized ; but he had dealt with it all before , he had never failed to pick up their spirits ...
... numbers , they de- cided not to cross it . Once aware of their disaffection , Alexander took it seriously . He knew their discomforts and sympathized ; but he had dealt with it all before , he had never failed to pick up their spirits ...
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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