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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... passed out of adolescence ; but this , like the talent of Hephaestion , is a thing Ptolemy can be relied upon to ignore . From this time begin the tensions between the concepts of king and conqueror . In the latter the Macedonians had ...
... passed out of adolescence ; but this , like the talent of Hephaestion , is a thing Ptolemy can be relied upon to ignore . From this time begin the tensions between the concepts of king and conqueror . In the latter the Macedonians had ...
Page 190
... passed away , or the whim left him , the pass was closed again . " This one , when he passed away , was remembered for two millennia . The campaign began in autumn . Sir Robert , describ- ing operations in winter , says , " So cold was ...
... passed away , or the whim left him , the pass was closed again . " This one , when he passed away , was remembered for two millennia . The campaign began in autumn . Sir Robert , describ- ing operations in winter , says , " So cold was ...
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... passed and boyhood quarrels might have been forgotten . Ten years had passed , for Cassander , in Macedon ; ex- cluded from the great adventure with its resplendent prizes ; fighting the Spartans in a war which comparison had made to ...
... passed and boyhood quarrels might have been forgotten . Ten years had passed , for Cassander , in Macedon ; ex- cluded from the great adventure with its resplendent prizes ; fighting the Spartans in a war which comparison had made to ...
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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