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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... once - independent kings in west Macedon , were executed . They may have hoped to recover their former sovereignty . But the eldest , another Alexandros , was let off because after the murder he had at once hailed Alexander as king . At ...
... once - independent kings in west Macedon , were executed . They may have hoped to recover their former sovereignty . But the eldest , another Alexandros , was let off because after the murder he had at once hailed Alexander as king . At ...
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... once he had passed by . Alexander called a war council , aware of the huge task ahead . If they left Tyre two - faced in their rear , he said , the Persians could use it as an invasion base against Greece , where Sparta was now in open ...
... once he had passed by . Alexander called a war council , aware of the huge task ahead . If they left Tyre two - faced in their rear , he said , the Persians could use it as an invasion base against Greece , where Sparta was now in open ...
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... once . Within , he felt in himself the divine spark hailed by Ammon . Objectively , he needed for purely political rea- sons the status its recognition would give . He did not ask it in Persia or Macedon , in neither of which , for ...
... once . Within , he felt in himself the divine spark hailed by Ammon . Objectively , he needed for purely political rea- sons the status its recognition would give . He did not ask it in Persia or Macedon , in neither of which , for ...
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