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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... supply . Even the originals had not all been done from life . Yet even with the least talented , something about the eyes shows who is meant . Perhaps the face , perhaps Greek patriotism , worked upon 12 MARY RENAULT.
... supply . Even the originals had not all been done from life . Yet even with the least talented , something about the eyes shows who is meant . Perhaps the face , perhaps Greek patriotism , worked upon 12 MARY RENAULT.
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Mary Renault. Perhaps the face , perhaps Greek patriotism , worked upon the young Plutarch long before he embarked on the Parallel Lives . Two of his earliest works were essays on the Fortune or Virtue of Alexander , upholding the second ...
Mary Renault. Perhaps the face , perhaps Greek patriotism , worked upon the young Plutarch long before he embarked on the Parallel Lives . Two of his earliest works were essays on the Fortune or Virtue of Alexander , upholding the second ...
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... perhaps as remarkable as any . Beside his own Macedonians , he had a contingent of Agriani , a Thracian tribe whose young chieftain , Lam- barus , he had already made a friend of , perhaps in his earlier wars , or because Lambarus had ...
... perhaps as remarkable as any . Beside his own Macedonians , he had a contingent of Agriani , a Thracian tribe whose young chieftain , Lam- barus , he had already made a friend of , perhaps in his earlier wars , or because Lambarus had ...
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